 | Literature - 1910 - 862 pages
...task in most acts of rescue. Under the impulse the feeblest becomes equal to the ordeal: — So close is grandeur to our dust. So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The Youth replies, I can. THE NEW ERA IN SOUTH AFRICA. "It is officially announced that Lord Gladstone has invited General... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1901 - 578 pages
...Society for 1857. FR DAVIES. Hawthorn, Black Rock. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (9 th S. viii. 85).— So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, " Thou must," Tho youtn replies, " I can !" ' Voluntaries,' Ralph Waldo Emerson. He is oft the wisest man Who is... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1901 - 690 pages
...Society for 1857. FR DAVIES. Hawthorn, Black Rock. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (9th S. viii. 85).— So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, "Thou muet," The youth replies, " I can !" ' Voluntaries,' Ralph Waldo Emerson. He is oft the wisest man... | |
 | William Lovett - Conduct of life - 1853 - 496 pages
...reasons are profound, they are also self-asserting. When presented, you say, — I 6now them already. " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies. / can." This inner voice, declaring for God and duty, is often hushed, often unheeded, and so at last... | |
 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - Quakers - 1891 - 900 pages
...heaven upon earth for ourselves and for all human kind, if we can begin each day by saying with Emerson, ''So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God...Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The Youth replies, 'I can!'" 99 DISCUSSION. JAMES H. ECOB: My excuse for talking so much here is this text of the Scripture... | |
 | Church and social problems - 1885 - 676 pages
...to repudiate that doctrine. I give you a finer and a nobler motto — So nigh is glory to our duty, So near is God to man ; When duty whispers low "Thou must," The soul replies, " I can." And if I am to speak to you about duties, I will mention one which is too often... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...be known," after the Truth manner, in lines like these? "So ni).rh is grandeur to our dust. So noar is God to man, When Duty whispers low, thou must, The youth replies, I can." " Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1867 - 226 pages
...benign Speed nimbler messages, That waft the breath of grace divine To hearts in sloth and ease. ' So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. IV. O, WELL for the fortunate soul Which Music's wings infold, Stealing away the memory Of sorrows... | |
 | American essays - 1867 - 784 pages
...waft the breath of grace diviue To hearts in sloth and case. 1 867.] Reviews and Literary Notices. So nigh is grandeur to our dust. So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Tkou must, The youth replies, / гаи. " Blooms the laurel which belongs To the valiant chief who... | |
 | Anne Mercier - 1869 - 278 pages
...Source of light and truth and being. The prize was Christabel's. CHAPTER IX. "READY? AY, READY!" " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...duty whispers low, ' Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " RW EMERSON. THERE is no weather, however bright, on which the Greyfriars' churchyard in... | |
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