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Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.
I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.
If inheritance tax were to be introduced for the monarch, it would mean slowly slicing away the royal assets.
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.
the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
There is no sickness problem. There is simply a problem of the believer's coming to know his inheritance in Christ.
Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.
The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.
Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.
The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession - a hive occupied by generations of bees.
Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.
Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
I feel middle-class, but my family had to start from scratch. There was no inheritance from a great-aunt. It feels like a slog.
The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.
This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
I'm exposing faultlines, dealing especially with rhetoric. Showing that heterosexuality is a disease, or at least its inheritance.
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
I believe that we have more capability than any other creature to control our biological inheritance - and we do so most of the time.
What are the chances that we will one day discover that DNA has absolutely nothing to do with inheritance? They are effectively zero.
I am a subject, And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me, And therefore personally I lay my claim To my inheritance of free descent.
The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.
We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on.
I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S.
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue
As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
Estate planning is an important and everlasting gift you can give your family. And setting up a smooth inheritance isn't as hard as you might think.
It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.
Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection.
Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance.
The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?
You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear through all eternity.
When you choose whether to make or keep a covenant with God, you choose whether you will leave an inheritance of hope to those who might follow your example.
Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.
Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.
Grooming a successor, is it an inheritance? In a democratic party, you don't want leaders appointed that way. They have to be appointed properly by the people.
Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.
In choosing a companion, it is necessary to study the disposition, the inheritance, and training of the one with whom you are contemplating making life’s journey.
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
... he is rewarded with a form of eternal childhood, with the bounty and vigilance of the stars, the whole world was his inheritance and he shared it with everyone.
Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.