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Letter "P" » posterity
«Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.»
Author: Alexander Crummell
| About:
Integrity,
Mankind
| Keywords:
Amid, ancestors, posterity, temptations, Trials, uncultured, unlearned
«I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
Reputation
| Keywords:
posterity, transmit, transmits, transmitting
«[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
| About:
Authority,
Constitution,
Justice,
Politics,
Religion
| Keywords:
injunction, injunctions, instruction, posterity, recklessly, reject, religious instruction, Rules of, sudden, The Rules, trifle, violate
«I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Posterity
| Keywords:
explained, intentionally, kindly, omit, omits, omitted, omitting, Others The, posterity, so as to, The Pleasure
«It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.»
«I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one. It is a title dearly enough bought by most men, to render it endurable, even when not quite clearly made out, which it never can be till the Posterity, whose decisions are merely dreams to ourselves, has sanctioned or denied it, while it can touch us no further.»
Author: Lord Byron
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Call Me, dearly, endurable, posterity, put up, render, sanctioned, The Genius, title
«How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on.»
«I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.»
«I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principles of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale»
«Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us»
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