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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... "
Examination Papers for the Academic Year ... - Page 9
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Harper's Fourth Reader: In Two Parts

Readers - 1888 - 432 pages
...God — Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader vieAv. JG HOLLAND. DUTY. So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to...whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, " I can." EMERSON. A FAKEWELL. My fairest child, I have no song to give you; No lark could pipe to skies so dull...
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The Detroit Journal Year-book, Volumes 1-3

Detroit (Mich.) - 1888 - 466 pages
...normal man is two-thirds will.— Schopenhauer. Politeness is benevolence in trifles.— Macaulay. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...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 other people's...
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Martin Luther: And Other Essays

Frederic Henry Hedge - Church history - 1888 - 348 pages
...versification of Kant's sublime maxim, " Duty the measure of ability, not ability the measure of duty : " — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, ' Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " I find no valid ground of moral obligation but the inborn sense of right. To the question, "Why am...
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Harvard Vespers: Addresses to Harvard Students by the Preachers to the ...

Sermons, American - 1888 - 248 pages
...repentances. The life of God and the life of man are all interwoven in the web of human experiences. " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " There is but one way of separating the life of God from the souls of men. It is by withdrawing one's...
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University-community Collaborations for the Twenty-first Century: Outreach ...

Richard M. Lerner, Lou Anna Kimsey Simon - Education - 1998 - 554 pages
...children now hove at their disposal Dur coda may properly come from Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote: So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...whispers low, thou must The youth replies, I can. Conclusion William James reminded us that". . . crises show us how much greater our vital resources...
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Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw

Robert Gould Shaw - History - 1999 - 492 pages
...more monument than man. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: "So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near to God is man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can." Six months after Wagner, James Russell Lowell penned "Memoriae Positum: RGS, 1863": "Brave, good, and...
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A Story for All Americans: Vietnam, Victims, and Veterans

Frank L. Grzyb - History - 2000 - 334 pages
...of. We'd chase him around the boat all day and all night trying to pull that sucker off. FIVE THE WAR So nigh is grandeur to our dust. So near is God to...whispers low, Thou must. The youth replies, I can. — Ralph Waldo Emerson JUST DOING MY JOB REGARDLESS of one's branch of service, whether enlisted man...
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Pragmatism and Other Writings

William James - Philosophy - 2000 - 404 pages
...world over. The insight and creed from which Emerson's life followed can be best summed up in his own verse: — So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man!7 Through the individual fact there ever shone for him the effulgence of the Universal Reason....
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The New Anthology of American Poetry: Traditions and Revolutions, Beginnings ...

Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 770 pages
...air benign Speed nimbler messages, 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 youth2 replies, I can. 1867 A voluntary is a piece of music performed as a prelude. Emerson's poem,...
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Memory in Black and White: Race, Commemoration, and the Post-bellum Landscape

Paul A. Shackel - History - 2003 - 276 pages
...Ralph Waldo Emerson (from Duncan 1992:55) wrote, So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near to God is man When Duty whispers low Thou must The youth replies I can Plans for a Shaw Memorial began almost immediately after his death. Shaw's own regiment, although still...
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