 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1879 - 550 pages
...: " Live now or never ! " He said, " What's time ? Leave Now for dogs and apes, Man has Forever." ' That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...great thing to pursue. Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred 's soon hit : This high man, aiming at a million, Misses... | |
 | 1916 - 546 pages
...regret that his work was not finished. But this is the common lot of all noble largeness of design : ' That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.' IV. PASTORAL THEOLOGY. Regulations for Readers in the Anglican Church, i. Report on Readers and Sub-Deacons.... | |
 | Association for the Advancement of Women - 1877 - 404 pages
...apart, with ghastly smooth life, dead at heart." Who shall say of his fellow, " he has failed ? " " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it; That high man with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it, That, has the world here, .... This,... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1879 - 562 pages
...: " Live now or never ! " He said, " What's time ? Leave Now for dogs and apes, Man has Forever." ' That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred 's soon hit : This high man, aiming at a million, Misses... | |
 | Frances Anne Budge - 1879 - 194 pages
...Future. " Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build." As Robert Browning writes, " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it,...great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundreds soon hit : This high man aiming at a million, Misses... | |
 | Frances Anne Budge - 1880 - 200 pages
...readiest means to have the root increase future."- — Thomas Fuller. As Robert Browning writes, " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it,...great thing to pursue. Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one. His hundreds soon hit : This high man aiming at a million, Misses... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1880 - 180 pages
...instance, to the ring of it in the rugged and incisive words of one of our strongest poets : — " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundreds soon hit. This high man aiming at a million, Misses... | |
 | Thomas Williams Bicknell, Albert Edward Winship, Anson Wood Belding - 1916 - 1014 pages
...of the children, and the teachers are powerless to counteract any such tendency. SELECTIONS SUCCESS That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it,...great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one; His hundred's soon hit; This high man, aiming at a million, Misses... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1881 - 348 pages
...in disgust. Many a man fails to become great merely because l1e cannot become great all at once. " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it,...it ; This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Diet ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit ; This high man,... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1889 - 316 pages
...nobler because he fails, but because he aims higher ; and therefore not less noble, though he fails. " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it; The point is a delicate one. Browning is thinking of the intrinsic worth of a man, or, as he puts it,... | |
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That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. 
