Patrimony Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own…
— Francis of Assisi
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And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and manifest reason for…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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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…
— Ferdinand von Mueller
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To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth, that is not living but existing
— Pier Giorgio Frassati
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The reason for much matrimony is patrimony.
— Ogden Nash
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You are worried about what man has done and is doing to this magical planet that God gave us. And I share your concern. What…
— Ronald Reagan
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No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.
— John Vinocur
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We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after…
— Learned Hand
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Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
— Isaac D'Israeli
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to…
— Samuel Johnson
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A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and…
— Henry Clay
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I'm sorry, Dite." Dite shrugged away the apology. "You have spared my brother when you could have killed him and you have offered me escape…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Who Wrote These Patrimony Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Patrimony Quotes as follows: