Heirs Quotes

• Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! O what a foretaste of glory divine! Heir of salvation, purchase of God. Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.

  Fanny Crosby

  Jesus, Blessed, Blood

  Fanny Crosby (2008). “Fanny J. Crosby: An Autobiography”, p.177, Hendrickson Publishers

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• God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

  William Ellery Channing

  God, Spiritual, Reading

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.22

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• Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.

  Karl Kraus

  Nature, Air, People

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• I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Age, Files

  "Locksley Hall" l. 178 (1842)

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• Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Patriotic, Men, America

  Speech at Columbia University's bicentennial on May 31, 1954. "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower". Book by Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 524, 1961.

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• Without the proper care, there's no beauty. Without beauty, there's no boyfriend.

  Lee Bo-na

  Drama, Care, No Boyfriend

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• Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

  David Rockefeller

  Father, Taken, Son

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Literature, Prophecy

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• This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.

  Gary North

  Christian, Religion, Atheism

  Gary North (1989). “Political polytheism: the myth of pluralism”, Inst for Christian Economics

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• My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was Heir to my Fathers Estate, and as it were the Father to take care of us all, is not less Valiant than they were, although his skill in the Discipline of War was not so much, being not bred therein.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Brother, Father, War

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• Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

  Matthew Simpson

  Sacrifice, Men, Heaven

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• May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Military

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.524, Best Books on

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• Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hope, Expectations, Bankers

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.72

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• Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiration, Action, Owners

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• Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Truth, Blessing

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.368

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• The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

  Norman O. Brown

  Religious, Money, Apes

  Norman O. Brown (2012). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”, p.240, Wesleyan University Press

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• CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Sarcastic, Science, Vegetarian

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2369, Delphi Classics

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• What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Men, Joy

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• To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

  John F. Kennedy

  Trust, Past, Giving

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.19, Best Books on

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• Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.

  J. L. Austin

  Character, Austin, Ill

  "Performativity". Book by James Loxley, p. 81, 2006.

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• Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Long

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• The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

  Publilius Syrus

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

  Tacitus

  Hate, Power, Inheritance

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• When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.

  Dr. Seuss

  Paper, May, Lasts

  Dr. Seuss (1986). “You're Only Old Once!”, Random House Childrens Books

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• Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.

  Betty Shabazz

  Needs, Heritage, Tradition

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