 | Henry William Gibson - 1911 - 308 pages
...that all labor is noble, that "no one can rise that slights his work" and the "grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies 8.30 clearly at hand." With this kind of a spirit, blankets are taken out of the tent to be aired and... | |
 | Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert - 1912 - 702 pages
...heart; That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art. 14 — LONGFELLOW. Our grand business is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. — THOMAS CARLYLE. Is there no reconciliation of some ancient quarrel, no payment of some long... | |
 | Carolyn M. Gerrish, Margaret Cunningham - 1912 - 448 pages
...where necessary in the following sentences: 1. Habits are at first cobwebs at last cables. 2. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. 3. Strength of mind is exercise not rest. 4. What the Puritans gave the world was not thought... | |
 | American Association of Orificial Surgeons - 1913 - 764 pages
...which no single system of healing can possibly obtain. Our grand buNlneHH undoubtedly IB not to nee what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS Franklin Patterson, MD, Chicago. In Chicago alone there are hundreds of... | |
 | Fred Eugene Hagin - 1914 - 426 pages
...CHRISTIANITY Don't ever prophesy unless yon know!— JAKES RUSSELL LOWELL. Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. — THOMAS CAJO.YU. We also dare to predict that by 2001 Shinto will have entirely disappeared... | |
 | 1915 - 498 pages
...some form or other, to receive into their heart of hearts this maxim of the Sage of Chelsea : Your business is 'not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.' " "Isolation in some degree from professional colleagues, will influence you in different ways—... | |
 | Alice Hazen Cass - 1915 - 192 pages
...it. — Lincoln. A first failure is often a blessing. — AL Brown. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. — Carlyle. I hold that Christian grace abounds where charity is seen ; That when we climb to... | |
 | 1915 - 662 pages
...at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day: for surely our plain duty is 'not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.' " CHOREA OF RHEUMATIC ORIGIN The view that between chorea and rheumatism there is a somewhat... | |
 | Bliss Perry - 1915 - 302 pages
...creed. He begins Signs of the Times, for example, by declaring that "Our grand business undoubtedly is I not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." The Age of Machinery in which men are living has led to a loss of faith in 1 individual endeavor.... | |
 | John Haynes Holmes - 1915 - 416 pages
...task, rather than dream the farthest dream. "Our grand business," said Thomas Carlyle, "undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies closely at hand." 1 All this, of course, represents an almost inconceivable gain. But one great question... | |
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. 
