Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 775.

Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.[309:3]

Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 1011.

Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;

And pyramids are pyramids in vales.

Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.

Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;

Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.

Night Thoughts. Night vi. Line 309.

And all may do what has by man been done.