POSTERITY

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1. We are always doing something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.—ADDISON, The Spectator
   

2. Not to the Past, but to the future, looks true nobility, and finds its blazon in posterity.—BULWER-LYTTON, The Lady of Lyons
   

3. He thinks posterity a packhorse, always ready to be loaded.—DISRAELI
   

4. The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.—HAWTHORNE, American Note Books
   

5. What is thy body but a swallowing grave,
   Seeming to bury that posterity
   Which by the rights of time thou needs must have,
   If thou destroy them not in dark obscurity?—SHAKESPEARE, Venus and Adonis
   

6. Posterity gives to every man his proper praise.—TACITUS, History
   

7. Posterity always establishes men in their proper rank, pulling down from their pedestals those who have been lifted up through deceit, in order to make place for others who have the right to it. For this reason the great ones who are unknown may continue on their way in the conviction of eternal justice, which is often tardy but always certain at the time appointed.—ALBERT WOLFF, The Figaro