Posterity Quotes - Page 2

• After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

  George Ade

  Writing, Belief, Turned Down

  Fables in Slang (1900) p. 158

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• Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

  Julius Sterling Morton

  Science, Tree, Humanity

  "Challenges in Implementing Corporate Governance: Whose Business is it Anyway". Book by John Zinkin (p. 183), November 8, 2011.

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• He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.

  Carlo Goldoni

  Son, Half, Dies

  "Pamela". Book by Carlo Goldoni, 1750.

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• Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they.

  William Cowper

  Eagles, Flew, Invincible

  1782 Poems,'Boadicea: an Ode'.

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• Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us

  Abraham Lincoln

  Done, Labor

  Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.2339, Modern Library

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• Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Time, Thinking, Done

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.226, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.

  Jonathan Swift

  Taken, Age, Next

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• The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

  Bill Vaughan

  Israel, Florence, Minorities

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• The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Genius, Literature, May

  Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.123

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• A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Pride, Mules, Ancestry

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• And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.

  Pierre de Fermat

  Science, Ancient, Knows

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• Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

  Samuel Adams

  Gun, Hands, Security And Freedom

  Samuel Adams' Speech delivered at the State House in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, August 1, 1776.

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• The function of posterity is to look after itself.

  Dylan Thomas

  Past, Looks, Function

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• A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

  Mark Twain

  Photography, Silly, Forever

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.356, Courier Corporation

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• Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

  Joseph Addison

  Book, Legacy, Genius

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.216

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• The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

  Jean Paul

  Family, Dad, Children

  Jean Paul (1866). “Levana: or, The doctrine of education”, p.17

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• I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

  Rene Descartes

  Math, Science, Discovery

  Rene Descartes (2007). “The Geometry of Rene Descartes”, p.240, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

  Henry Clay

  America, Democracy, United States

  Henry Clay (1863). “Life and times”, p.344

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• Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

  Robert Menzies

  Thinking, Speech, Never Forget

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• What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dazzle, Spirit, Moments

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Faust”, p.14, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

  Joseph Addison

  Literature

  The Spectator no. 583, 20 Aug. 1714

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• The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Flattery, Contemporary

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Dreamtigers”, p.34, University of Texas Press

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• Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

  James Joyce

  Inspirational, America, Lasts

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• Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?

  Boyle Roche

  Done, Way, Should

  Debate in Irish House of Commons, quoted in Sir Jonah Barrington Personal Sketches and Recollections of his ownTimes (1827). SeeAddison 7:40.

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• People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Family, Memories

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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