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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. "
Timber: Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter; Ed. with an Introduction ... - Page 111
by Ben Jonson - 1892 - 166 pages
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Studies of the Soul

Jonathan Brierley - Soul - 1900 - 330 pages
...besides giving us a habit of climbing which will very likely serve in the next world as well as this. That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...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,...
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A School Grammar of the English Language

Edward Archibald Allen - English language - 1900 - 184 pages
...mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. 13. That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. 14. Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po ; Or onward, where...
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Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Volume 32

Science - 1900 - 604 pages
...higher level in the scale of being and prepare his soul for the approaching change, frequently fails. This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. failure. In the spirit world it is success, for the true wisdom of life is to bear and overcome trials...
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Baylor Browning Interests

1927 - 156 pages
...whole of life, can light before us, can create before our eyes any unbeaten track in life and thought. "That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: "Others mistrust and say—"But time escapes: Live now or never!" He said, "What is time? Leave Now...
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Improvement Era, Volume 13

1910 - 1216 pages
...or 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...goes on adding one to one His hundred's soon hit: The high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. The ' "Mormons" settled in a land where the materials...
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The Works of Robert Browning

Robert Browning - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 718 pages
...or 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...This high man, with a great thing to pursue. Dies ere be knows it. That low man goes on «HHi«g one to one, His hundred's soon hit: This high man, aiming...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Elizabeth M. Knowles - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 1160 pages
...Leave Now for dogs and 155 KOBl-KT BROWNING Man has Forever.' *A Grammarian's Funeral' I i8ssl 1. 8ï 1 That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. Thai low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million,...
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The Fair Garden and the Swarm of Beasts, Centennial Edition: The Library and ...

Margaret A. Edwards - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 252 pages
...letters to second hand booksellers." And again, "Working on Building Manuscript." As Browning said: That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and...high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he know it. [from "A Grammarian's Funeral," 1855] When he resigned from the Pratt Library, the Baltimore...
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Dead from the Waist Down: Scholars and Scholarship in Literature and the ...

Anthony David Nuttall, Professor of English and Fellow A D Nuttall - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 256 pages
...to promise a resolution of our difficulties are these: That law man seelu a little thing to do, Secj it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he know it. That low man goes on adding one to one, Hu hundreds soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million,...
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A Manual of Ethics

John S. Mackenzie - Philosophy - 2005 - 493 pages
...universe in which we live. The smaller our universe, the more easily is our happiness attained. " That tow man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it t This high man, with a great thing to puisne, Dies ere he knows it" " It is indisputable, " as Mill...
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