Inheritance quotes
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"I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance of self- government, which we have acquired and shaped for them."
"If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors."
"Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?"
"Service is no Inheritance."
"Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to the brink of ruin, and then, like him, shall have to labor with the current of opinion, when COMPELLED perhaps, to do what prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance."
"With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual."
"I believe that we have more capability than any other creature to control our biological inheritance - and we do so most of the time."
"What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!"
