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Pygmies are pygmies still, though perched on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone out-builds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. - Edward Young


What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. - Pericles


Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil. - Frank McKinney 'Kin' Hubbard


Structure builds minds into great Monuments. - Robert M. Hensel


When smashing monuments, save the pedestals, they always come in handy. [Pl., Burzac pomniki, oszczedzajcie cokoly. Zawsze moga sie przydac] - Stanislaw Jerszy Lec


I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride. - William James 'Will' Durant


The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead. - Christian Nestell Bovee


Mountains are earth's un-decaying monuments. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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