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Posterity Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot Picture Quote #1

Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; he left one book, penned by ordinary people. Deliverers speak of winning through might and conquest; he spoke of a place in the heart Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it Picture Quote #1

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by it's collision with error Picture Quote #1

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Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors Picture Quote #1

The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity Picture Quote #1

So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity Picture Quote #1

This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds Picture Quote #1

As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me? Picture Quote #1

We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us Picture Quote #1

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If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself Picture Quote #1

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity Picture Quote #1

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us? Picture Quote #1

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man Picture Quote #1

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape Picture Quote #1

How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb? Picture Quote #1

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Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity Picture Quote #1

I’m not going to write for posterity. I’m going to write to make a buck Picture Quote #1

Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors Picture Quote #1

So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity Picture Quote #1

I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has Picture Quote #1

It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most remote posterity, is a work of bare utility; not a shrine, not a fortress, not a palace, but a bridge Picture Quote #1

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Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals Picture Quote #1

Let us regard the forests as an inheritance, given to us by nature, not to be despoiled or devastated, but to be wisely used, reverently honoured and carefully maintained. Let us regard the forests as a gift, entrusted to any of us only for transient care, to be surrendered to posterity as an unimpaired property, increased in riches and augmented in blessings, to pass as a sacred patrimony from generation to generation Picture Quote #1

Posterity has never made the grave’s embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure for out inevitable morality then the illusion of a beautiful eternity. But there is one illusion I still hold dear: that is the thought of an enlightened nation. That is the only future I still dream of Picture Quote #1

Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has expended more life and effort in war than any other city, and has won for herself a power greater than any hitherto known, the memory of which will descend to the latest posterity Picture Quote #1

Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage Picture Quote #1

There’s no posterity to write for. I’m writing now for mutated arthropods Picture Quote #1

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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 (Posterity Quotes) I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot (Posterity Quotes) Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; he left one book, penned by ordinary people. Deliverers speak of winning through might and conquest; he spoke of a place in the heart (Posterity Quotes) 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 (Posterity Quotes) Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it (Posterity Quotes) The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by it's collision with error (Posterity Quotes) Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors (Posterity Quotes) The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity (Posterity Quotes) So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity (Posterity Quotes) This I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds (Posterity Quotes) As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me? (Posterity Quotes) We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us (Posterity Quotes) If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself (Posterity Quotes) Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity (Posterity Quotes) Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us? (Posterity Quotes) I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man (Posterity Quotes) The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape (Posterity Quotes) How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb? (Posterity Quotes) Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity (Posterity Quotes) I’m not going to write for posterity. I’m going to write to make a buck (Posterity Quotes) Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors (Posterity Quotes) So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity (Posterity Quotes) I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has (Posterity Quotes) It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most remote posterity, is a work of bare utility; not a shrine, not a fortress, not a palace, but a bridge (Posterity Quotes) Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals (Posterity Quotes) Let us regard the forests as an inheritance, given to us by nature, not to be despoiled or devastated, but to be wisely used, reverently honoured and carefully maintained. Let us regard the forests as a gift, entrusted to any of us only for transient care, to be surrendered to posterity as an unimpaired property, increased in riches and augmented in blessings, to pass as a sacred patrimony from generation to generation (Posterity Quotes) Posterity has never made the grave’s embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure for out inevitable morality then the illusion of a beautiful eternity. But there is one illusion I still hold dear: that is the thought of an enlightened nation. That is the only future I still dream of (Posterity Quotes) Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has expended more life and effort in war than any other city, and has won for herself a power greater than any hitherto known, the memory of which will descend to the latest posterity (Posterity Quotes) Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage (Posterity Quotes) There’s no posterity to write for. I’m writing now for mutated arthropods (Posterity Quotes)

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