 | Education - 1909 - 674 pages
...fragments " so that each in his humble way may strive to live up to this ideal of Lowell's, If thou hast time But for a line, Be that sublime; Not failure, but low aim is crime. During a sewing lesson, a little boy in one of these schools said to his teacher. " I'm going to make... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1910 - 332 pages
...hold, Luck hates the slow and loves the bold, Soon come the darkness and the cold. Greatly begin ! though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime,...it, dream of fame, And scrawl, as I do here, a name. IV AL FRESCO THE dandelions and buttercups Gild all the lawn ; the drowsy bee Stumbles among the clover-tops,... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - Elocution - 1910 - 462 pages
...paper white Whereon each one of us may write His word or two, and then comes night. Greatly begin! though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime,...it, dream of fame, And scrawl, as I do here, a name. JR Lowell. Development of inflexional agility must always be connected with the direct exercise of... | |
 | 1911 - 558 pages
...paper white Whereon each one of us may write His word or two, and then comes night. Greatly begin ! though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime, — Not failure, but low aim, is crime." Give us pure air, pure food and pure water. So many of you may not then ride in automobiles and live... | |
 | Clarence Franklin Carroll, Sarah Catherine Brooks - Readers - 1911 - 296 pages
...Life is a leaf of paper white Whereon each one of us may write His word or two; and then comes night. Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime; Not failure, but low aim, is crime. THE GREAT SNOWBALL FIGHT AT BRIENNE SCHOOL PART I That Snowball Fight is now famous. It was in the... | |
 | Avery Warner Skinner - English literature - 1911 - 168 pages
...LIFE is a leaf of paper white, Whereon each one of us may write His word or two; and then comes night. Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime; Not failure, but low aim is crime. LOWELL. HEAVEN is not reached at a single bound, But we build the ladder by which we rise From the... | |
 | Education - 1904 - 484 pages
...Life is a leaf of paper white Whereon each one of us may write His word or two, and then comes night. Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime ; Not failure, but low aim is crime. Truth may bend, but never break, and will ever rise above falsehood, like oil above water. Truth is... | |
 | Clarence Franklin Carroll, Sarah Catherine Brooks - Readers - 1911 - 424 pages
...Life is a leaf of paper white Whereon each one of us may write His word or two; and then comes night. Though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime; Not failure, but low aim, is crime. ARMIES IN THE FIRE The lamps now glitter down the street; Faintly sound the falling feet; And the blue... | |
 | Hugh Thomson Kerr - Children's sermons - 1911 - 234 pages
...is a sheet of paper white, Whereon each one of us may write His word or two, and then comes night ; Though thou have time But for a line — be that sublime, Not failure, but low aim is crime." LXI The Prince and His Garden THIS is a fairy story, but I think it is true. You know I told you once... | |
 | Lucy Re Bartlett - Marriage - 1911 - 140 pages
...purification, and the renewed struggle which leads finally to victory. " Greatly begin ! though them have time But for a line, be that sublime — Not failure, but low aim it crime ! " Who does not feel the truth in those words ? It is the low standards existing in human... | |
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Greatly begin ! though thou have time But for a line, be that sublime, — Not failure, but low aim, is crime. 
