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Legacy

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Some man of powerful character to command a person, morally subjected to him, to perform some act. The commanding person suddenly to die; and, for all the rest of his life, the subjected one continues to perform that act.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Poets that lasting marble seek
Must carve in Latin or in Greek.

Edmund Waller

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He was not of an age but for all time.

Ben Jonson

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

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For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives
In the valley of its saying where executives
Would never want to tamper

W. H. Auden

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There is no sure foundation set on blood,
No certain life achiev’d by others’ death.

William Shakespeare

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