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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
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This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.
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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
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After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit.
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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.
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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
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''We are always doing,'' says he, ''something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us.''
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'We are always doing,' says he, 'something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us.'
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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
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Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.
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I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
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I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.
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Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity.
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Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.
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People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
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Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
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