 | Association for the Advancement of Women - 1877 - 404 oldal
...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,... | |
 | Frances Anne Budge - 1879 - 194 oldal
...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,...This high man aiming at a million, Misses an unit." * " The free giving of the branches of our present estate to God is the readiest means to have the... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1879 - 562 oldal
...: " 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...knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred 's soon hit : This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world here... | |
 | Frances Anne Budge - 1880 - 200 oldal
...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,...This high man aiming at a million, Misses an unit." JOHN WHITING AND HIS FRIENDS. " Our Master all the work hath done He asks of us to-day ; Sharing His... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1880 - 180 oldal
...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...soon hit. This high man aiming at a million, Misses a unit." This sounds like a deliberate attack on the idealist, a direct preference of low to high aims... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1880 - 180 oldal
...instance, to the ring of it in the rugged and incisive words of one of our itrongest poets : — " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundreds scon hit This high man aiming at a million, Misses a unit." This sounds like a deliberate attack on... | |
 | Thomas Williams Bicknell, Albert Edward Winship, Anson Wood Belding - 1916 - 1014 oldal
...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,...knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one; His hundred's soon hit; This high man, aiming at a million, Misses a unit. That has the world here; should... | |
 | Browning Society (London, England) - 1881 - 610 oldal
...that apparent failure may mean real success. This comes out likewise in A Grammarian's Funeral. " This low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does...a great thing to pursue Dies ere he knows it That has the world here — should he need the next, Let the world mind him ! This throws himself on God,... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1881 - 348 oldal
...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 oldal
...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. 
