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Virtue alone out builds the pyramids: Her monuments shall last when Egypts fall.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man but the man the oath.
SYMBOL n. Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere survivals as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.
Mountains are earths undecaying monuments.
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
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Virtue alone out builds the pyramids: Her monuments shall last when Egypts fall.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man but the man the oath.
SYMBOL n. Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere survivals as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.
Mountains are earths undecaying monuments.
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.