 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - Quakers - 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 - Conduct of life - 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... | |
 | Education - 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 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... | |
 | Unitarianism - 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... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Sermons, English - 1874 - 296 pages
...or in any school, has cause to say that he has failed. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to Man, When 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 516 pages
...the breath of grace divine To hearts in sloHi and ease. So nigh is grandenr to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. IV. 0, WELL for the fortunate soul Which Music's wings infold, Stealing away the memory Of sorrows... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...glorified, — Victor over death and pain, Forever. HEROISM. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. BORROWING. FROM THE FRENCH. SOMF, of your hurts you have cured, And the sharpest you still have survived,... | |
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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. 
