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Quotes About Legacy

He made me understand that there could be no release from their service until the day I died. He explained, Your father gave it to you as his inheritance, and you will pass it onto your children. They will curse you, but our long arm will reach them nevertheless, generation after generation.
~ Emile Habiby
Åžehirlerin her taraf?n? tutuÅŸturun, milletleri yok edin, her ÅŸeyi silip süpürün ve ÅŸu çürümüÅŸ dünyada hiçbir eser b?rakmay?n; belki o zaman ortaya daha iyi bir dünya ç?kar.
~ Émile Zola
Quand je pense, dit Sandoz, que ces petits fignoleurs de l'École et du journalisme l'ont accusé de paresse et d'ignorance, en répétant les uns à la suite des autres qu'il avait toujours refusé d'apprendre son métier ! (...) Jamais ils ne comprendront que ce qu'on apporte, lorsqu'on a la gloire d'apporter quelque chose, déforme ce qu'on apprend.
~ Émile Zola
And once, Hareton, I came upon a secret stock in your room... some Latin and Greek, and some tales and poetry... But I've most of them written on my brain and printed in my heart, and you cannot deprive me of those!
~ Emily Bronte
Why shouldn't you suffer? I do! Will you forget me? Will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say twenty years hence, 'That's the grave of Catherine Earnshaw. I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I've loved many others since: my children are dearer to me than she was; and at death, I shall not rejoice that I am going to her; I shall be sorry that I must leave them! Will you say so, Heathcliff?
~ Emily Bronte
I mun hev' my wage, and I mun goa! I hed aimed to dee wheare I'd sarved fur sixty year;
~ Emily Bronte
Cualquier reliquia de los muertos es preciosa si se les valoró en vida
~ Emily Bronte
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
~ Emily Bronte
You are my son, then, I'll tell you' and your mother was a wicked slut to leave you in ignorance of the sort of father you possessed.
~ Emily Bronte
The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
~ Emily Dickinson
The only secret people keep is immortality.
~ Emily Dickinson
Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.
~ Emily Dickinson
Los que son amados no pueden morir, Porque amor significa inmortalidad.
~ Emily Dickinson
Look back on time with kindly eyes, He doubtless did his best; How softly sinks his trembling sun In human nature's west!
~ Emily Dickinson
Die geliebt werden, können nicht sterben, denn Liebe bedeutet Unsterblichkeit.  
~ Emily Dickinson
The Babies we were are buried, and their shadows are plodding on.
~ Emily Dickinson
You left me - Sire - two Legacies A Legacy of Love A Heavenly Father Had He the offer of - You left me Boundaries of Pain - Capacious as the Sea - Between Eternity and Time - Your Consciousness - and Me -
~ Emily Dickinson
BEQUEST. You left me, sweet, two legacies, — A legacy of love A Heavenly Father would content, Had He the offer of; You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me.
~ Emily Dickinson
Read, sweet, how others strove, Till we are stouter; What they renounced, Till we are less afraid; How many times they bore The faithful witness, Till we are helped, As if a kingdom cared! Read then of faith That shone above the fagot; Clear strains of hymn The river could not drown; Brave names of men And celestial women, Passed out of record Into renown!
~ Emily Dickinson
You left me - Sire -two Legacies - A Legacy of Love A Heavenly Father would suffice Had He the offer of - You left me Boundaries of Pain - Capacious as the Sea - Between Etemity and Time - Your Consciousness - and Me - 644
~ Emily Dickinson
Twas my one glory - Let it be Remembered I was owned of Thee.
~ Emily Dickinson
The stars are not hereditary
~ Emily Dickinson
When Continents expire The Giants they discarded — are Promoted to endure —
~ Emily Dickinson
Oh, what an afternoon for heaven, When 'Brontë' entered there!
~ Emily Dickinson