Inheritance Quotes

• This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

  Patrick Henry

  Family, Giving, Religion

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• When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Quarrels, Estates

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson (1904). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes”

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• The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

  Isadora Duncan

  Children, Feet, Giving

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Father

  "Faust". Act I, scene i, 1808.

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• There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Family, Inspiring, Children

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• We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

  Ethel Waters

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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• Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

  Albert Einstein

  Family, Children, School

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.56, Broadway Books

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• Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Heirs, Succeed, Born

  Quoted in R S Peters (ed) TheConcept of Education (1966), ch.10, 'Learning and Teaching'.

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• If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

  Confucius

  Happiness, Happy, Powerful

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• Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

  Charles Simmons

  Wealth, Dangerous, Benevolence

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• A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Father, Son, Loss

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• You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear through all eternity.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Children, Weaving, Coats

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• The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspiring, Sports, Memorial Day

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• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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• Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Divided, Knows

  Aphorisms on Man no. 157 (ca. 1788)

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• Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, People, Kind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.269

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• I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Son, Dollars

  Andrew Carnegie (2017). “How to win fortune: and The Gospel of Wealth”, p.23, FV Éditions

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• One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Business, Spring, Responsibility

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.311, Penguin

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• The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

  Thomas Fuller

  Funny, Money, Doctors

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• Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

  Karl Kraus

  Wisdom, Experience, Saving

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.

  Leland Stanford

  Skills, Humanity, Benefits

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

  Henry Cabot Lodge

  Fall, Civilization, Land

  Speech Against the League of Nations, patriotpost.us. August 12, 1919.

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• Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue

  Roy Jenkins

  Heirs, Distrust, Taxes

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• People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Money, Women, People

  Louisa May Alcott (2004). “Little Women”, p.212, Collector's Library

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• It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.

  Kin Hubbard

  Fun, Long, Watches

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