Quotes About Legacy

We cannot hope to live so long in our names, as some have done in their persons, one face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. 'Tis too late to be ambitious. The great mutations of the world are acted, or time may be too short for our designes...We whose generations are ordained in this setting part of time, are providentially taken off from such imaginations.

We live, we love, we die. A little while we sing in the sun, and then ... we are gone.

Everywhere you look, the ground is already camped on. So you sigh and pitch your tent where you can, knowing someone else has been there before.

The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Whoso belongs only to his own age, and reverences only its gilt Popinjays or soot-smeared Mumbojumbos, must needs die with it.

History is a great dust heap.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

Every noble crown is, and on earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

All great peoples are conservative.

Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books

Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

The history of the world is but a biography of great men.

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

History of the world is the biography of the great man. And I said: The great man always act like a thunder. He storms the skies, while others are waiting to be stormed.

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.

Great Men, taken up in any way, are profitable company.

No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

Whatever opinion may be formed of the extent of his dissipation in Dumfries, one fact is unquestionable, that his powers remained unimpaired to the last; it was there he produced his finest lyrics, and they are the finest, as well as the purest, that ever delighted mankind.