“So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So near is God to man,
When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
The youth replies, I can!”

—  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Emerson: Poems

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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

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