Heirs Quotes

• Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! O what a foretaste of glory divine! Heir of salvation, purchase of God. Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.

  Fanny Crosby

  Jesus, Blessed, Blood

  Fanny Crosby (2008). “Fanny J. Crosby: An Autobiography”, p.177, Hendrickson Publishers

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• God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

  William Ellery Channing

  God, Spiritual, Reading

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.22

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• Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.

  Karl Kraus

  Nature, Air, People

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• I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.

  Princess Margaret

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

  Thomas Fuller

  Funny, Money, Doctors

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• Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Believe, Parent

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• One who wants to wear the crown, bears the crown.

  Lee Min-ho

  Crowns, Want, Bears

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• I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Age, Files

  "Locksley Hall" l. 178 (1842)

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• Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Patriotic, Men, America

  Speech at Columbia University's bicentennial on May 31, 1954. "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower". Book by Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 524, 1961.

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• We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.

  Terence McKenna

  Years, Style, Seven

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• A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

  Juvenal

  Inheritance, Enjoy, Thirds

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• Without the proper care, there's no beauty. Without beauty, there's no boyfriend.

  Lee Bo-na

  Drama, Care, No Boyfriend

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• Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

  David Rockefeller

  Father, Taken, Son

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

  John F. Kennedy

  Trust, Past, Giving

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.19, Best Books on

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• The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all the apostles, martyrs, ascetics, and just men who announced the coming of the Lord. And let us emulate their faith, charity, hope, zeal, life, patience under suffering, and perseverance unto death so that we may also share their crowns of glory.

  John of Damascus

  Life, God, Faith

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• The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of freedom which our fathers left unfinished shall be brought forth with shoutings and cries of grace unto it, when our now drooping Liberty lifts up her head and prospers, happy will he be who can say, with John Milton, "Among those who have something more than wished her welfare, I, too, have my charter and freehold of rejoicing to me and my heirs."

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Father, Reality, America

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1888). “Old portraits and modern sketches”

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• This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.

  Gary North

  Christian, Religion, Atheism

  Gary North (1989). “Political polytheism: the myth of pluralism”, Inst for Christian Economics

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• If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Literature, Prophecy

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• My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was Heir to my Fathers Estate, and as it were the Father to take care of us all, is not less Valiant than they were, although his skill in the Discipline of War was not so much, being not bred therein.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Brother, Father, War

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• Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

  Matthew Simpson

  Sacrifice, Men, Heaven

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• Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.

  Betty Shabazz

  Needs, Heritage, Tradition

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• Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

  Tacitus

  Hate, Power, Inheritance

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• The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

  Publilius Syrus

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.

  Dr. Seuss

  Paper, May, Lasts

  Dr. Seuss (1986). “You're Only Old Once!”, Random House Childrens Books

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• Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.

  J. L. Austin

  Character, Austin, Ill

  "Performativity". Book by James Loxley, p. 81, 2006.

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