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"We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us."
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"NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life.preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation."
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"When we all part from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have to share is his own story."
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"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing."
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"To be remembered, umbrella waits for the rain!"
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"It is so awkward that how our ancestors wasted their whole life and never thought about education or making difference for the future generations. My Grandfather lived more than a 100+ years, married 3 women and as he was illiterate he just wasted 115 fucking years. I wish I could live a hundred years like him to make difference, so the next generation does not use the same insulting words I am using today."
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"Even if you have to die tomorrow, die as a literate."
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"Leave beauty marks in the lives of those you meet, not scars."
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"That's what makes heroes so special. You carry the hopes of humanity into the realm of the eternal."
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"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."
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"Words disappear in the air, but writing remains. If you want something to be remembered about you, write it down."
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"Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!"
Love
"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."
Parenting
"The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality."
Life
"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."
Music
"There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch."
Business
"When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations."
Man
"I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.""
Man
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
Being
"Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass."
Wisdom
"Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness."
Humility
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