Posterity Quotes - Page 3

• Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!

  Samuel Adams

  Men, Liberty, Trouble

  Samuel Adams (1968). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1773-1777: 1773-1777”

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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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• 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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• A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.

  Horace Binney Wallace

  Kind, Nations

  Horace Binney Wallace (1856). “Literary criticisms and other papers”, p.340

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• Strangers are contemporary posterity.
  [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]

  Madame de Stael

  Stranger, Contemporary

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• History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

  Nikolay Chernyshevsky

  Hurt, Grandchildren, Hands

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• We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Suffering, Age

  'Sybil' (1845) bk. 6, ch. 13

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• What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

  Horace

  Parent, Age, Doe

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• The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wise, Wisdom, Writing

  Walter Savage Landor, John Forster, Charles George Crump (1891). “Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen. Dialogues of literary men”

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• We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.

  William Penn

  Next, Generations, Careless

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Expression, Common Humanity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.59, Delphi Classics

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• We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged.

  Herman Melville

  Teacher, Generations, Gone

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war”, p.151

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• You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. — Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.

  John Adams

  Trust, Mean, Thinking

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 1: Life of John Adams”, p.191, Jazzybee Verlag

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• No generation can do another generation's work for it. What we human beings can do at most is to mark out the pathway a little clearer for the generations to come after, and put legible signboards at the points where the greatest dangers have threatened us, in the hope that our posterity will read, understand, and be warned.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Littles, Pathways, Generations

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• Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

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

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• Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

  Joseph Addison

  Book, Legacy, Generations

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

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• In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Fear, Needs

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

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• He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Horse, Thinking, Packs

  'Hansard' 3 June 1862

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• The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a prodigious amount of work, seemingly without effort and without fatigue. The amount of work such men leave to posterity is amazing.

  Walter Russell

  Successful, Men, Thinking

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• The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Writing, Age, Able

  Friedrich Nietzsche; (2016). “Human, All Too Human”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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• Posterity gives to every man his true honor.
  [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]

  Tacitus

  Men, Giving, Honor

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• It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

  Joseph Addison

  Greatness, Age, Matter

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1873). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.425

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• An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Style

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• As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

  Thomas Gray

  Done, May, Asks

  Thomas Gray (1825). “The works of Thomas Gray”

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• As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

  John Trumbull

  Trust, Rights, Ties

  John Trumbull, “M'Fingal - Canto II”

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