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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, I can. "
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888
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Notes and Queries

1901 - 578 pages
...different from those quoted by PERTINAX at the first reference :— So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, Brave youth replies, I can. NOTES ON BOOKS, 4c. M. HvAary of the Conquest of Mexico. By William H....
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Notes and Queries, Volume 104

1901 - 688 pages
...different from those quoted by PERTIXAX at the first refereuoe :— So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, Brave youth replies, I can. M. NOTES ON BOOKS, 4o. History of the, Con/jiifit of Mexico. By William...
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Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends

Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1891 - 900 pages
...all human 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...
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Social and Political Morality

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...
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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 North-western Monthly: A Magazine Devoted to University ..., Volume 8

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...
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May-day, and Other Pieces

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 226 pages
...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 youth replies, I can. IV. O, WELL for the fortunate soul Which Music's wings infold, Stealing away the memory Of sorrows...
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Christabel Hope; or, The beginnings of life

Anne Mercier - 1869 - 278 pages
...being. The 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...
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The Religious Magazine and Monthly Review, Volume 47

1872 - 648 pages
...stay at 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...
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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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