 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1888 - 676 Seiten
...inspire. Emerson was better than his philosophy, when he wrote : " So near is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When duty whispers low, ' Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " How different from this is the writing of George Eliot, with her exaggeration of heredity... | |
 | 1888 - 466 Seiten
...Schopenhauer. Politeness is benevolence in trifles.— Macaulay. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, "Thou must," The youth replies, "I can."— Anon. "Alas! it is not when we sleep soft and wake merrily ourselves that we think on the... | |
 | Julia B. Hoitt - 1890 - 426 Seiten
...Lifting Better up to Best ; Planting seeds of knowledge pure. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So nigh is God to man, When Duty whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, "• I can." The ugh we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1889 - 356 Seiten
...the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done. DUTY. RW EMERSON. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, " Thou must" The youth replies, "/ can." TIME. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. IF Time be of all things the most precious, wasting Time must be the greatest... | |
 | Henry H. Brown - 1996 - 114 Seiten
..."Thou Shalt!" I think this is what Emerson meant when he wrote : So near is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, "Thou must!" The youth replies, "I cahl" Thus Duty may be defined as, the consciousness of the necessity of obeying the Soul's command... | |
 | Health Research - 1996 - 110 Seiten
...Serene and resolute and still, And calm and self-possessed." * * * "So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, "Thou must!" The youth replies, "I can.' " * * * "I will to will with energy and decision! I will to persist in willing! I will to... | |
 | Joan Waugh - 1997 - 332 Seiten
...commemorative poem of the Fifty-fourth, "Voluntaries," with the lines So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can. Shaw's family was jubilant, and when Rob arrived in Boston on February 15, 1863, to commence the planning... | |
 | Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 Seiten
...in the world that awaits us. Will you do it? Can you do it? "So near is the grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man; When duty whispers low thou must, The youth replies — I can." (DEP, 18) Du Bois's engagement with Emerson's writings on the ethical demand for self-cultivation... | |
 | Richard M. Lerner, Lou Anna Kimsey Simon - 1998 - 554 Seiten
...Dur coda may properly come from Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote: So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, thou must The youth replies, I can. Conclusion William James reminded us that". . . crises show us how much greater our vital resources... | |
 | Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - 1999 - 978 Seiten
...uplift of mankind never calls for foree and death. There are times, as hoth you and I know, when Tho' love repine and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, 'Tis man's perdition to he safe When for truth he ought to die. At the same time and even more clearly in a day like this,... | |
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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! 
