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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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"The legacy we leave behind should be better than the legacy we inherited."
"To be remembered, umbrella waits for the rain!"
"Great deeds begin in the mind, extraordinary deeds begin in the heart, and remarkable deeds begin in the soul."
"A son is an unfulfilled man's last attempt to fulfill his unfulfilled dreams."
"Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that we are at liberty to suppose either that nothing was said, or that nothing witty was said, or that the fraction of three witty sayings lasted eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty nights, which does not leave a liberal allowance of wit for any one of them."
"Ideas taken and planted into the grave do not germinate."
"If you do not work hard, nothing works."
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"Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship."
"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
"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."
"We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us."
"Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!"
"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."
"An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person."
"Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved."
"Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies."
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