Source: Georg Fabricius, in praise of Georg Agricola in De Metallicis Rebus (1566); as translated by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover in the introduction to their 1912 translation of Agricola’s De Re Metallica (1556).

Complete Sentence: Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Misattribution: Often misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, but no authentic source for this attribution is yet found.