 On which ground, too, let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this other precept well to heart, which to me was of invaluable service: 'Do the Duty -which lies nearest thee,'...  Throne-makers - Page 174by William Roscoe Thayer - 1899 - 329 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Acland Armstrong - 1881 - 902 pages
...may ripen into day, lay this other precept well to heart, which to me was of invaluable service : ' Do the duty which lies nearest thee,' which thou knowest...Thy second Duty will already have become clearer." . . . " Your America is here or nowhere. The situation that has itot its Duty, its Ideal, was never... | |
 | 1881 - 892 pages
...may ripen into day, lay this other precept well to heart, which to me was of invaluable service : ' Do the duty which lies nearest thee,' which thou knowest...Thy second Duty will already have become clearer." . . . " Your America is here or nowhere. The situation that has not its Duty, its Ideal, was never... | |
 | JOHN SWANN WITHINGTON - 1881 - 788 pages
...of the truest prophet this age has known. "Lay this other precept well to heart, do the duty tehich lies nearest thee which thou knowest to be a duty...Thy second duty will already have become clearer," says Carlyle. It is but a variation of the oft-repeated scriptural idea, " The commandment of the Lord... | |
 | William Minto - 1881 - 596 pages
...the commandments, to each man." To the question, What is to be done 1 he answers peremptorily, " ' Do the duty which lies nearest thee,' which thou knowest to be a duty." " Produce ! Produce ! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a Product, produce it in... | |
 | William Minto - 1881 - 634 pages
...the commandments, to each man." To_ the question, What is to be done ? he answers peremptorily. " ' Do the duty which lies nearest thee,' which thou knowest to be a duty.^Il-5-ElQilUce I Produce ! Were it but the pitif ullest infinitesimal fraction of a "Product,... | |
 | 1881 - 552 pages
...which to me was of invaluable service, " Do the duty which lie» nearest thee," which thou knowcst to be a duty. Thy second duty will already have become clearer. May we not say, however, that the hour of spiritual enfranchisement is even this : When your ideal... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - 1882 - 632 pages
...rustle of the corn," and " To be great is to be misunderstood"; and this single one of Carlyle's — "Do the duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest...Thy second duty will already have become clearer." Of like brevity, and fulness of thought and artistic power are the following quotations from the poem... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 pages
...may ripen into day, lay this other precept well to heart, which to me was of invaluable service, " Do the Duty •which, lies nearest thee" which thou...Thy second Duty will already have become clearer. . . . The Situation that has not its Duty, its Ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes, here, in... | |
 | Mary Frederica P. Dunbar - 1883 - 416 pages
...August 16. The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy. BULWER LYTTON. Do the duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest...thy second duty will already have become clearer. CARLYLE. I now can plunge And dare life's eddies, fearless. The Saint's Tragedy : KINGSLEY. Thou art... | |
 | James Platt - 1883 - 538 pages
...beautiful allegory of the subordination of our passions and our powers to the voice of duty. To all I say : Do the duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest...thy second duty will already have become clearer. I think it was Dr. Johnson who said you cannot give people " understanding." Has any real, systematic... | |
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