 | William Lovett - 1853 - 204 Seiten
...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 comes... | |
 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1891
...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... | |
 | 1885
...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... | |
 | 1897
...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... | |
 | 1866
...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
...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 - 205 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Anne Mercier - 1869
...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... | |
 | 1919
...the inflexible and uncompromising course which he has pursued since last March ? HENRY LEE HIGGINSON Though love repine and reason chafe, There came a...voice without reply — " 'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." r|^HESE are the familiar lines which _I_ Henry Lee Higginson... | |
 | 1888
...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... | |
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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! 
