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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Note 332 — HEROISM[309]

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Heroism is an obedience, etc. In one of his poems Emerson says:

"So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth replies, 'I can.'"

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