Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER: | 1234 |
AUTHOR: | Ralph Waldo Emerson (180382) |
QUOTATION: | Not gold but only men can make A people great and strong; Men who for truth and honor’s sake Stand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep, Who dare while others fly— They build a nation’s pillars deep And lift them to the sky. |
ATTRIBUTION: | Grangers Index to Poetry, 6th ed., p. 898 (1973) says the author is unknown and that this is wrongly attributed to Emerson; the poem is not found in Emersons Complete Works (1903). |
SUBJECTS: | Nation |