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• Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I must tell you then: You have forgot the will I told you of. . . . . Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal. To every Roman citizen he gives, To every several man, seventy-five drachmas. . . . . Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, His private arbours and new-planted orchards, On this side Tiber; he hath left them you, And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures, To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves. Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Men, Giving

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [252]

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• You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself flowers in your veins,
  till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and
  perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than
  so, because men and women are in it who are every one sole heirs as well
  as you. Till you can sing and rejoice and delight, as misers do in gold, and
  kings in scepters, you never enjoy the world.

  Thomas Traherne

  Stars, Kings, Flower

  'Centuries of Meditations' Century 1, 29

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• To take estrogen or not to take estrogen:
  That is the question.
  Whether 'tis nobler to abstain and suffer
  The sweat and puddles of outrageous flashes
  Or to take arms against a sea of mood swings,
  And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
  No more; at first the studies say 'twill end
  The heart attacks and thousand bouts of bloat
  That flesh is heir to, 'tis a true confusion -
  For then they say 'twill cause us all to die
  Perchance from breast cancer; ay, there's the rub;
  For who can dream or even sleep while worrying about
  What doctors might be saying come next week?

  Sonya Sones

  Dream, Cancer, Heart

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• Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Son, Law

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, John Boydell, Samuel Johnson (1857). “King Lear. Romeo and Juliet”, p.277

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• Taxation, the very thing that had triggered the British civil wars, would do so again, this time in America. The taxes may have been different, but the result would once again be disaster. What happened in America was really round two of those wars - the civil war of the British Empire, with the Hanoverians playing the part of the Stuarts, and the Americans the heirs of the revolutionaries, of Cromwell and of William III, the inheritors of a true British liberty, that had somehow got lost in its own motherland.

  Simon Schama

  War, Two, America

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• There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.

  Harvey Cushing

  Death, Science, Flesh

  The Medical Career and Other Papers 'Medicine at the

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• If Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker had teamed up to write epic fantasy, something like Split Heirs might have resulted.

  John DeChancie

  Writing, Epic, Splits

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• Of course, Lady Arabella could not suckle the young heir herself. Ladies Arabella never can. They are gifted with the powers of being mothers, but not nursing mothers. Nature gives them bosoms for show, but not for use. So Lady Arabella had a wet-nurse.

  Anthony Trollope

  Mother, Nursing, Nurse

  Anthony Trollope (1866). “Doctor Thorne. A Novel. 9th Ed”, p.27

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• We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added new conquests to our domain in that incessant contest with nature which means life. But we are decadent heirs if we cannot use the instruments that the ages have put into our hands. The acquisition of these, in the largest scope, is education.

  Arthur Lynch

  Education, Mean, Hands

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• Nuclear power, once regarded as petroleum's natural heir, has become less and less attractive as its numerous drawbacks come to light. Coal, the other fossil fuel, is ultimately as exhaustible as oil.

  Lester R. Brown

  Light, Oil, Environmental

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• My inheritance how lordly wide and fair;
  Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Inheritance, Fields

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• I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire.
  [I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir.]

  George Herbert

  Holes, Mice

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• Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.

  Stewart Udall

  Land, Choices, Titles

  Stewart L. Udall (1963). “The Quiet Crisis”

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• Our heirs, whatever or whoever they may be, will explore space and time to degrees we cannot currently fathom. They will create new melodies in the music of time. There are infinite harmonies to be explored.

  Clifford A. Pickover

  Space, Degrees, May

  Clifford A. Pickover (1999). “Time: A Traveler's Guide”, p.245, Oxford University Press

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• The rich don't have children; they have heirs.

  Peter Charles Newman

  Children, Rich

  Peter Charles Newman (1983). “The establishment man: a portrait of power”, McClelland & Stewart

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• The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inheritance, Riches, Wealth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1166, Delphi Classics

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• My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females indiscriminately.... I, on the other hand, had a zealous partiality for heirs male, however remote.

  James Boswell

  Father, Hands, Males

  James Boswell (1851). “The life of Samuel Johnson. [Followed by] The journal of a tour to the Hebrides”, p.265

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• If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Humanity, Flesh

  Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”

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• To the extent to which we believe in this world, we are heir to the laws which rule this place.

  Marianne Williamson

  Believe, Law, World

  Source: www.peopleandpossibilities.com

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• How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory! A frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! Insect infinite! A worm! A God!

  Edward Young

  Children, Greatness, Men

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”

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• If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have no basic right ... not to be harmed by those natural diseases we are heir to.

  Tom Regan

  Mean, Animal, Disease

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• Little does the sick man consult his own interests, who makes his physician his heir.

  Publilius Syrus

  Men, Sick, Physicians

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• Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Estates

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1842). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.35

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• He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.

  Victor Hugo

  Son, Gentleman, Desert

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• The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless satisfies my only legitimate aspiration. Among all the many misfortunes to which we are heir, it is only fair to admit that we are allowed the greatest degree of freedom of thought. It is up to us not to misuse it. To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery-even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness-is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself.

  Andre Breton

  Mean, Justice, Imagination

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