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I am my own heir.Heir-- Lope De Vega
The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.
A progeny of learning.
If she could inherit, she would thus wrongly transmit her paternal family's riches to that of her husband: she is carefully excluded from the succession.
Nick inherited me.
No generation can bequeath to its successors what it has not got.'3
Genealogy belongs to the rich in human history. The poor rise and fall without leaving a footprint.
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children (Prov. 13:22 NKJV). I
Hereditary right should be kept sacred, not from any inalienable right in a particular family, but to avoid the consequences that usually attend the ambition of competitors.
Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.
Beings are owners of their action, heirs of their action.
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down.
IF PARENTS PASS ENTHUSIASM ALONG TO THEIR CHILDREN, THEY WILL LEAVE THEM AN ESTATE OF INCALCULABLE VALUE
The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.
Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose.
What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.
A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
My inheritance how lordly wide and fair;
Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
The same trade generally passes down from father to son, inclinations often following descent: but if any man's genius lies another way he is, by adoption, translated into a family that deals in the trade to which he is inclined;
I don't like inherited wealth.
They inherited it all. The curse of privilege. Janitors for the ambitions of the dead.
The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it.
According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father.
We do not inherit the Earth from our parents. We borrow her from our children.
We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.
The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.
Inherited wealth may be easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to loose.
Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.
We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior, and the enormous role of the cultural process of the transmission of tradition.
No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch.
When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.
The most precious inheritance that parents can give their children is their own happiness.
I inherited half my father's friends and all his enemies
It was usually a case of heir today, gone tomorrow.
When you do nothing, what do your children inherit? They inherit, nothing.
We must recognize that only scarce resources are ownable; second, that the body is a type of scarce resource; third, that the mode of acquiring title to external objects is different from the basis of ownership of one's own body.
Where there's a will - there's a relative!
The meek don't inherit shit. Earth belongs to the wolves.
Listen to the voice of God and a time will come when you will have an inheritance of all nations
That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.
Most wise men, in their private sentiments, have ever treated hereditary right with contempt; yet
You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.
We are no longer inheriting the Earth from our parents, we are stealing it from our children.
entailment of the family estates, but envisaged for himself
Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.
Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue
Our ancestors were very rich and eminent people, and they left us an enormous inheritance, which we have completely forgotten, especially since the time when we began to consider ourselves the descendants of a monkey.
I would rather make my name then inherit it.
Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.
You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
To lose what we have never owned might seem an eccentric bereavement, but Presumption has its own affliction as well as claim.
The Ownership Quotient,
I would rather make my name than inherit it.
I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.
a species used to strict patterns of inherited hierarchy.
Possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.
One of the fundamental missions of a family business is to pass the business to subsequent generations.
Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate.
It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it.
beneficiaries having
Aristocrats have heirs, the poor have children, and the rest keep dogs.
Heir follows heir, as wave succeeds to wave.
You inherit white heather, a bee's wing,
Two suicides, the family wolves,
Hours of blankness.
It is good to preserve the name, wealth, and honors you inherit, but it is better in every way if you yourself create a position and a name. The first requires good sense, but the second demands willpower and great virtue.
Parents do not owe their progeny an inheritance no matter how much money they have. One of the surest ways to produce loafers and freeloaders is to let children know that their future is assured.
Every parent will leave a personal legacy (though not all parents will leave behind an inheritance). what i give to my children or what i do for my children is not as important as what i leave in them.
Being kind is not hereditary
If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him.
The possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness.
My grandfather ... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.
You must take the will for the deed.
I do not believe in inheriting your position in society based on which womb you come from ... I think a rich person should leave his children enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.
Wisdom is better than an inheritance;
knowledge is worth more than gold.
Parents are rule givers.
Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.
In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,
no more. I cannot get it nearer to me.
If, as is generally the case, the heirs are not equal to the demands which life makes on an entrepreneur, the inherited wealth rapidly vanishes.
If an appointed daughter by accident dies without ,leaving a son, the husband of the appointed daughter may, without hesitation, take that estate.
those who have inherited their fortunes than of those who have acquired them; the makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children,
The rich don't have children; they have heirs.
Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was well distributed throughout the community, and thus the family rendered independent.
What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?
We were descended from royalty.
There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.
PRO13.22 A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
To lose what we never owned might seem an eccentric Bereavement but Presumption has its Affliction as actually as Claim
Genealogy: research by nobodies tracing their descent from a line of nobodies.
I can't just give you all the answers. You have to earn the right to be the Progeny. - Eve
When your problem is one of needing numerous specializations of a stable, common abstraction, inheritance can be an extremely low-cost solution.
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
The classical example of multiple inheritance conflict is called the 'Nixon Diamond.' It arises from the observation that Nixon was both a Quaker (and hence a pacifist) and a Republican (and hence not a pacifist).
Inherited wealth, that is not what America is based upon.
The will for deed I doe accept.