| William Lovett - 1853 - 496 páginas
...reasons are profound, they are also self-asserting. When presented, you say, — I 6now them already. " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...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 - 900 páginas
...heaven upon earth for ourselves and for all human kind, if we can begin each day by saying with Emerson, ''So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 226 páginas
...and youthful dames, For famine, toil, and fray ? Yet on the nimble air benign Speed nimbler messages, That waft the breath of grace divine To hearts in...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... | |
| 1867 - 1052 páginas
...nimble air benign Speed nimbler messages, That waft the breath of grace diviiic To hearts in sloth niul ease. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is...whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can. " Blooms the laurel which belongs To the valiant chief who fights ; I see the wreath, I hear the songs... | |
| Anne Mercier - 1869 - 278 páginas
...Source of light and truth and being. The prize was Christabel's. CHAPTER IX. "READY? AY, READY!" " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...duty whispers low, ' Thou must,' The youth replies, ' I can.' " RW EMERSON. THERE is no weather, however bright, on which the Greyfriars' churchyard in... | |
| Book - 1871 - 366 páginas
...above Again pronounce his creatures blest ? 217. UPON an air, unseen, benign, Speed heavenly messages, That waft the breath of grace divine To hearts in...God to man, When duty whispers low, thou must, The heart replies, / can. The God that worketh high and wise, Nor pauses in his plan, Will take the sun... | |
| 1872 - 900 páginas
...were ten times slain, Crowns him victor glorified, — Victor over death and pain, Forever. HEROISM. UQ TQ tP lean. THE SEA. BEHOLD the Sea, "The opaline, the plentiful and strong, Yet beautiful as is the rose... | |
| 1872 - 642 páginas
...following verse, by Mr. Emerson, contains the ' pith ' o all the Unitarian sermons ever preached : — ' So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...duty whispers low, " Thou must," The youth replies, " I can." ' " Dr. Sears asks : ' Has this writer heard the fifteen thousand Unitarian sermons which... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1874 - 308 páginas
...this, will I ever believe that any boy, in this or in any school, has cause to say that he has failed. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to...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 working for... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 páginas
...and youthful dames, For famine, toil, and fray? Yet on the nimble air benign Speed nimbler messages, That waft the breath of grace divine To hearts in...whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can. IT. O, WELL for the fortunate soul Which Music's wings infold, Stealing away the memory Of sorrows... | |
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