your actions live after you ...

your actions live after you till this globe is dissolved; they pass inevitably down as an inheritance from one generation to another. ... decency and integrity, courage and compassion, are always well worth while; they are not lost, but pass on down the generations; we are indeed the heirs of all the ages.
 Phyllis Bentley

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In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.
 Phyllis Bentley