| Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1891 - 900 pages
...kind, if we can begin each day by saying with Emerson, ''So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When 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 : "If... | |
| William Lovett - 1853 - 496 pages
...self-asserting. When presented, you say, — I 6now them already. " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, 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... | |
| 1897 - 678 pages
...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 in... | |
| 1866 - 662 pages
...the action of this sentiment of the Right, his heart and mind expand above himself, and above Nature. Though Love repine, and Reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — " T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Such is the difference... | |
| 1866 - 672 pages
...the action of this sentiment of the Right, his heart and mind expand above himself, and above Nature. Though Love repine, and Reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — " ' I i - man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Such is the difference... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 226 pages
...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 youth replies, I can. IV. O, WELL for the fortunate soul Which Music's wings infold, Stealing away the memory Of sorrows... | |
| Anne Mercier - 1869 - 278 pages
...prize was Christabel's. CHAPTER IX. "READY? AY, READY!" " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, ' Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " RW EMERSON. THERE is no weather, however bright, on which the Greyfriars' churchyard in Edinburgh... | |
| 1888 - 1008 pages
...grandeur is our dust. So nigh is God to man, When Duty whispers low, then must, The youth replies, / can. Though Love repine, and Reason chafe. There came a voice without reply, — "V is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die ! For simple and pure delight... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 pages
...glorified, — Victor over death and pain, Forever. HEROISM. So nigh is grandeur to our dost, So near is 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... | |
| 1872 - 642 pages
...home and repeat it, and need go to church no more: — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can." That means, we take it, in plain prose, — God is a present help, and enables every man to obey the... | |
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