God sends us the poor to try us… And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200… — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity. [Lat., Majorum… — Sallust Copy Share Image
The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed… — Polybius Copy Share Image
I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long… — Peter Biskind Copy Share Image
We have not yet received our kingdoms, neither will we, until we have finished our work on earth . . . .… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The Lord clearly defined the roles of providing for and rearing a righteous posterity. In the beginning, Adam, not Eve, was instructed… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“What is the source of this premature anxiety to establish fundamental laws? It is the old conceit of being wiser than all… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Again and again [Tomas] Jefferson deftly sidesteps many of [John] Adams's often provocative remarks. They both felt the correspondence, which was written… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Our duty to ourselves, to posterity, and to mankind, call on us by every motive which is sacred or honorable, to watch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The Constitution, when it says, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We just can't let the Lord down. And if the day comes when we are the only women on earth who find… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Here lies the sense of literary creation to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It has been handed down in mythical form from earliest times to posterity, that there are gods, and that the divine (Deity)… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We National Socialists must hold unflinchingly to our aim in foreign policy, namely to secure for the German people the land and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
No generation can do another generation's work for it. What we human beings can do at most is to mark out the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
“ posterity , n . I try not to think about us growing old together, mostly because I try not to think… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Writing a book about Jeremy Corbyn, set out with two objectives. The first was simple: to explain how he became the leader… — Alex Nunns Copy Share Image
When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
When biblical material touches on the natural world, we can legitimately use the tools of science. Sometimes that shows us - no… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
Will posterity believe that, while the Press has swarmed with inflammatory productions that tend to prove the blessing of theoretical confusion and… — Arthur Young Copy Share Image
I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
The dignity of the act is the deliberate, circumspect, open, and serene performance by these men in the clear light of day,… — William M. Evarts Copy Share Image
I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st… — J. Allen Hynek Copy Share Image
All doctrines relating to the creation of the world, the government of man by superior beings, and his destiny after death, are… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
“But to unite in a permanent religious institution which is not to be subject to doubt before the public even in the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental American imperatives, there are… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
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