 | Robert Browning - 1882 - 328 pages
...failure : •' Wilt thou trust death or not ? " He answered " Yes ! " Hence with life's pale lure ! " 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... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1883 - 368 pages
...effort in disgust. Many a man fails to become great merely because he cannot become great all at once. " 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... | |
 | 1883 - 680 pages
...hundred's soon hit. This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That has the world here—should he need the next, Let the world mind him ! This throws himself on God, and unperplext Seeking shall find him.' We have dwelt at some length upon Mr. Browning's attitude in this... | |
 | 1883 - 436 pages
...hundred's soon hit. This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That has the world here—should he need the next, Let the world mind him ! This throws himself on God, and unperplext Seeking shall find him.' We have dwelt at some length upon Mr. Browning's attitude in this... | |
 | Appleton Morgan, Charlotte Endymion Porter - 1892 - 296 pages
...lofty designs above the one just quoted, to read another " familiar quotation " as follows : " The low man seeks a little thing to do. Sees it and does it. The high man with a great thing to pursue Dies ere he knows it." So far as familiarity goes we should... | |
 | mary linskill - 1884 - 408 pages
...I am glad I have a clean surplice. I will arise and go. . . ." CHAPTER XIV. SAPPHIRES AND AGATES. " That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...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, and unperplext,... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1884 - 308 pages
...earth's failure : " Wilt thou trust death or not ?" He answered " Yes ! " Hence with life's pale lure ! " 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... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1884 - 308 pages
...earth's failure : " Wilt thou trust death or not ?" He answered " Yes ! " Hence with life's pale lure ! " 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... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1884 - 264 pages
...at which is the measure of his greatness, for it is the noble aim which makes .him great and good. ' That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it.' Simon had sought to accomplish no less a thing than to make England self-governing, that it might no... | |
 | Alfred Williams Momerie - 1885 - 352 pages
...effort in disgust. Many a man fails to become great merely because he cannot become great all at once. " 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... | |
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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. 
