Monuments

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

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He made him a hut, wherein he did put O poor Robinson Crusoe!

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Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered.

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The righteous require no monuments; their lives and their teachings are their monuments.

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My engagements will not permit me to be present, and I believe if there I could not add anything material to the information existing on the subject. I think it wiser, moreover, not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the example of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered.

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Where London's column, pointing at the skies,Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.

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Jove, thou regent of the skies.

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The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride,Has wounded the thick cloud.

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Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

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To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, wore a contradiction to our belief.

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But monuments themselves memorials need.

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You shall not pile, with servile toil,On him that was "the scourge of God."

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Thou, in our wonder and astonishmentHast built thyself a life-long monument.

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For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good tourne we will write it in duste.

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Towers of silence.

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Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit.

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If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass time will efface it. If we rear temples they will crumble to dust. But if we work upon men's immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with the just fear of God and love of their fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

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