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Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
Author: John Quincy Adams
Source: in a speech at Plymouth, Massachusetts
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Herself the solitary scion left
Of a time-honour'd race.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: The Dream (st. 2)
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He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: Speech
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Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach
posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: Speech
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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit;
What's genuine, shall posterity inherit.
[Ger., Was glanzt ist fur den Augenblick geboren;
Das Aechte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Faust--Vorspiel auf dem Theater (l. 41)
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He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.
[It., Muore per meta chi lascia un' immagine di se stesso nei
figi.]
Author: Goldoni
Source: Pamela (II, 2)
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As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot)
what has it ever done to oblige me?
Author: Thomas Gray
Source: Letter to Dr. Wharton
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Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of
those battles.
[Lat., Audiet pugnas, vitio parentum
Rara juventus.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Odes (bk. I, 2, 23)
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I despise mankind in all its strata; I foresee that our
descendants will be still far unhappier than we are. Would I not
be a criminal if, notwithstanding this view, I should provide for
progeny, i.e. for unfortunates?
[Ger., Ich verachte die Menschheit in allen ihren Schichten; ich
sehe es voraus, dass unsere Nachkommen noch weit unglucklicher
sein werden, als wir. Sollte ich nicht ein Sunder sein, wenn ich
trotz dieser Ansicht fur Nachkommen, d.h. fur Ungluckliche
sorgte?
Author: Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt
Source: during a conversation with Arago in 1812
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The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public
business: "we do much for posterity; I would fain see them do
something for us."
Author: Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson Montagu (Montague)
Source: Letters
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Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for
posterity; for what has posterity done for us?
Author: Sir Boyle Roche
Source: during "Grattan's Parliament"
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Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.
[Lat., Culpam majorum posteri luunt.]
Author: Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus)
Source: De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (VII, 5)
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Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to
posterity.
[Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu visit? Vixit ad posteros.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Epistles (XCIII)
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Strangers are contemporary posterity.
[Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]
Author: Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein)
Source: see the "Journal" of Camille Desmoulins
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The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce
inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.
Author: Sir Richard Steele
Source: Spectator
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We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I
would fain see Posterity do something for us.
Author: Sir Richard Steele
Source: Spectator (vol. VIII, no. 583)
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor.
[Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
Author: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus)
Source: Annales (IV, 35)
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What has poster'ty done for us,
That we, lest they their rights should lose,
Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?
Author: John Trumbull
Source: McFingal (canto II, l. 121)
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A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.
Author: Horace Binney Wallace
Source: Stanley (vol. II, p. 89)
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