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: | 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 |