It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of a Persian princess in an Asiatic citadel; Epaminondas, dying without issue, was right to boast that he had Victories for daughters.

~ Marguerite Yourcenar

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Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends.It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs.

~ Steve Saint

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

~ Muhammad Iqbal

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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

~ Frederick Henry Hedge

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