"And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away."

Legacy, Power, Decay, Impermanence

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"And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away."

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"And that infinitesimal change ripples outward -- even smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter -- maybe less than a lot, but always more than none."

John Green, American Author

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"A steely look of anger flared in my mother's eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"His style as a writer places him in the category of the immortals, and his courage as a critic outlives the bitter battles in which he engaged. As a result, we use the word 'Orwellian' in two senses: The first describes a nightmare state, a dystopia of untrammelled power; the second describes the human qualities that are always ranged in resistance to such regimes, and that may be more potent and durable than we sometimes dare to think."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

Legacy, Courage, Truth, Resistance

"Words disappear in the air, but writing remains. If you want something to be remembered about you, write it down."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Inscriptions here of various Names I view'd,The greater part by hostile time subdu'd;Yet wide was spread their fame in ages past,And Poets once had promis'd they should last."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Legacy, Fame, Poetry, Memory

"EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI. When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Legacy, Death, Memory, Love

"People are so busy making money that they forget they will leave it all behind. When we depart, we only take with us the good we do in this world."

R.V.M., Indian Author

Legacy, Wealth, Life, Truth

"Our mothers and our grandmothers some of them: moving to music not yet written."

Alice Walker, American Author

Legacy, Women, Future, Movement

"Time should be invested instead of wasting it or spending it."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Most people who possess life, in reality, do not quite understand that they possess life only because they possess time."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth."

Mistake, Mistakes, Worth, Youth

"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."

Poetry,

"We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day.We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep,Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away;It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow,The path of its departure still is free.Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;Nought may endure but Mutability!"

Impermanence, Change, Life, Joy

"In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect."

Food, Censure, Drama, Hatred

"I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity."

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"Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this principle; tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. This is the source also of the melancholy which is inseparable from the sweetest melody. The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."

Tragedy, Sorrow, Pleasure, Emotion

"And in a mad tranceStrike with our spirit's knifeInvulnerable nothingsWe decayLike corpses in a charnelFear & GriefConvulse is & consume usDay by dayAnd cold hopes swarmLike worms withinOur living clay."

Despair, Horror, Fear, Decay, Grief

"I have sent books and music there, and all / Those instruments with which high spirits call / The future from its cradle, and the past / Out of its grave, and make the present last / In thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die, / Folded within their own eternity."

Eternity, Books, Music, Memory, Time

"Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon."

Nothing,

"How many a rustic Milton has passed by Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting drudgery and care! How many a vulgar Cato has compelled His energies no longer tameless then To mould a pin or fabricate a nail!"

Work, Labor, Truth, Observation