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PHILOSOPHY > philosopher, poet, essayist > Ralph Waldo Emerson
So nigh is...
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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.
Source: Voluntaries, 3.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.