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" So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can. "
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
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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...
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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...
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Social and Political Morality

William Lovett - 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...
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The Official Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the Church Congress, Held ...

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...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20

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...
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The book of prayer and praise, for public and private worship, in fourteen ...

Book - 1871 - 366 pages
...benign, Speed heavenly 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 man, When duty whispers low, thou must, The heart replies, / can. The God that worketh high and wise, Nor pauses in his plan, Will take the sun...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...victor glorified, — Victor over death and pain, Forever. HEROISM. So nigh is grandeur to our dost, harger was By the flash of his eye, and his nostril's play He seemed to the / can. THE SEA. BEHOLD the Sea, •The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

1872 - 900 pages
...were ten times slain, Crowns him victor glorified, — Victor over death and pain, Forever. HEROISM. UQ TQ tP lean. THE SEA. BEHOLD the Sea, "The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pages
...were ten times slain, Crowns him victor glorified, — Victor over death and pain, Forever. HEROISM. , desert cheerer, Let me chase thy waving lines ; Keep me nearer, me thy hearer, youtli replies, I can. THE SEA. BEHOLD the Sea, The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful...
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The silence and the voices of God, with other sermons

Frederic William Farrar - 1874 - 308 pages
...this, will I ever believe that any boy, in this or in any school, has cause to say that he has failed. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...Duty whispers, low, " Thou must" The youth replies "/ can." 2. But, secondly, while you work, you must remember that you are not, or ought not, to be...
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