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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 1252 |
| AUTHOR: | James Russell Lowell (1819–91) |
| QUOTATION: | Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, “Sonnet IV,” The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell, p. 20 (1900). Be noble, and the nobleness that Lies in other men—sleeping but Never dead—will rise in majesty To meet thine own —Inscription on south facade of Union Station, Washington, D.C. |
| SUBJECTS: | Nobility |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia |
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