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Nothing succeeds like ones own successor.
Clarence H. Hincks
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.
Edmund Burke
I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
Andrew Carnegie
To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather.
Henry David Thoreau
But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.
Alexander Pope
Die and endow a college or a cat.
What you enjoy is yours; what you save for your heirs, is already not yours, but theirs.
Source Unknown
The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
Michel de Montaigne
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
Louisa May Alcott
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
Don Marquis
He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral.
Yiddish Proverb
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
Thomas Fuller
Queer little twists go into the making of an individual. To supress them all and follow clock and calendar and creed until the individual is lost in the neutral grey of the host is to be less than true to our inheritance.... Life, that gorgeous quality of life, is not accomplished by following another man's rules. It is true we have the same hungers and same thirsts, but they are for different things and in different ways and in different seasons.... Lay down your own day, follow it to its noon, your own noon, or you will sit in an outer hall listening to the chimes but never reaching high enough to strike your own.
Angelo Patri
The wordwas born in the blood,grew in the dark body, beating,and took flight through the lips and the mouth.Farther away and nearerstill, still it camefrom dead fathers and from wondering races,from lands which had turned to stone,lands weary of their poor tribes,for when grief took to the roadsthe people set out and arrivedand married new land and waterto grow their words again.And so this is the inheritance;this is the wavelength which connects uswith dead men and the dawningof new beings not yet come to light.
Pablo Neruda, Fully Empowered (N
And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Bible, Luke 12, verses 13
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
Marcus Valerius Martial
The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
William Hazlitt
It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it.
Kin Hubbard
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to put me in your will and you will see that (as long as I live at least) you will never even catch cold.
