Edward Young Quotes on Legacy
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In records that defy the tooth of time.
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They that on glorious ancestors enlarge, Produce their debt instead of their discharge.
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The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.
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Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.