You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J. R. R. Tolkien

I must be cruel, only to be kind:
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
William Shakespeare,

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
Aldous Huxley

"Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive."

James Connoly