 Life is a leaf of paper white Whereon each one of us may write His word or two, and then comes night. " Lo, time and space enough," we cry, " To write an epic ! " so we try Our nibs upon the edge, and die.  Saint Jospeh Medical Herald - Side 4821912Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1895 - 78 sider
...have a preference, this is it. We append a few selections — taken at random — from his books : 257 ••Greatly Begin! though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime, — Not failure, bat low aim is crime." From " For an Autograph." '• For whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1896 - 528 sider
...and loves the bold, Soon come the darkness and the cold. Greatly begin I though thou have time Bat for a line, be that sublime, — Not failure, but low aim, is crime. Ah, with what lofty hope we came I But we forget it, dream of fame, And scrawl, as I do here, a name.... | |
 | 1906 - 412 sider
...you with pleasure, forget yourself; and be just what God has made you." — Charles Kin•gsley. Life is a leaf of paper white, Whereon each one of us may...though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime — failure, but low aim, is crime. — JR Lowell. RADIANCE A Calendar of Daily Sunshine For 1906.... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 sider
...snow." The following triplet, from " For an Autograph," is a noble summons to lofty purpose : — " Greatly begin ! though thou have time But for a line,...sublime, — Not failure, but low aim, is crime." " Mahmood the Image-Breaker " teaches the incomparable worth of human integrity : — " Little were... | |
 | Lady Isabel Burton, William Henry Wilkins - 1897 - 470 sider
...a space Lady Burton will speak in her own words. CHAPTER XXVII THE SWORD FALLS 1890 L1fe is a sheet of paper white, Whereon each one of us may write His word or two, and then comes night. LOWELL. " T ET me recall the last happy day of my life. It I ^ was Sunday, October 19, 1890. I went... | |
 | Lady Isabel Burton - 1897 - 830 sider
...Burton will speak in her own words. CHAPTER XXVII THE SWORD FALLS 1890 Life Is • sheet of paper whtte, Whereon each one of us may write His word or two, and then comes night. LOWELL. " T ET me recall the last happy day of my life. It 1 j was Sunday, October 19, 1890. I went... | |
 | 1897 - 184 sider
...Why should we ever wear black for the guests of God ? JOHN RUSKIN. Greatly begin ! Though thou hast time But for a line, be that sublime ; Not failure, but low aim is crime. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1898 - 424 sider
...the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. — EMERSON. Life is a leaf of paper white, Whereon each one of us may...that sublime, — Not failure, but low aim, is crime. — LOWELL. There is nothing at all in life except what we put there. — MME. SWETCHINE. , "We are... | |
 | Constance E. Plumptre, Charles Edward Plumptre - 1898 - 418 sider
...responsibility of his calling, and wean him from all low ambition and mere vulgar worship of success. 11 Greatly begin ! though thou have time But for a line...that sublime : Not failure, but low aim is crime." Or this, from his fourth Sonnet, upon the force of Good Example : — " Be noble ! And the nobleness... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1898 - 356 sider
...the 'progress of our race, and the lesson which it teaches may be thus interpreted: 108 109 " Life is a leaf of paper white, Whereon each one of us may write His word or two, and then conies night. Greatly begin ! though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime, — Not failure,... | |
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