 | Charles Cuthbert Hall - Presbyterian Church - 1891 - 372 pages
...continually before our blundering life. He knows us not only as we are, but as we mean to be. " All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as...hardly to be packed Into a narrow act ; Fancies that hroke through language and escaped ; All I could never be, All men ignored in me, — This I was worth... | |
 | 1891 - 728 pages
...of a man's feeling that is the measure of his capabilities, the test of the Divine spark within him. 'All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.' So, when his energies are nobly directed, whether he attains or fails, the man has... | |
 | Religion - 1891 - 448 pages
...passed, in making up the main account; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not at his work, yet swelled the man's amount. " Thoughts...hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies, that brohe through language and escaped ; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth... | |
 | Edward Berdoe - 1891 - 210 pages
...could ever be brought to notice, the ethereal fancies, the noble aspirations, the longing after God — All I could never be, All men ignored in me ; This I was worth to God. And God's measure is not coarse, and His balanc^ weighs the evanescent fancy, and His rod measures... | |
 | Brooke Foss Westcott - Christianity - 1891 - 420 pages
...despair? This: — 'tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!1 All I could never bo, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1892 - 666 pages
...last spoke, from his poem " Rabbi Ben Ezra": — "Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow fact. Fancies that broke through language and escaped ;...ignored in me, This I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. " So take and use thy work : Amend what flaws may lurk, What strain o' the stuff, what... | |
 | American literature - 1892 - 806 pages
...verse. Elsewhere the poet sings: " Not on the vulgar mass Called ' work' must sentence pass ; " and " All I could never be, All men ignored in me. This I was worth to God, whose wheel ihe pitcher shaped." Hut of Sordello's unfruitful existence says : " A sorry farce Such is life after... | |
 | Robert Browning, Mrs. Charlotte M. Tytus - 1892 - 192 pages
...me : we all surmise, They, this thing, and I, that: whom shall my soul believe? August Fourteenth. All I could never be, All, men ignored in me ; This I was worth to God. August Fifteenth. So, take and use Thy work, Amend what flaws may lurk, What strain o' the stuff, what... | |
 | Marshall Mather - English literature - 1892 - 190 pages
...world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account ; All instincts immature, All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, Yet swelled the man's amount.' In other words, there is a great deal of unseen material ever going to make up the character of the... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1892 - 488 pages
...world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb, So passed in making up the main account : All instincts immature. All purposes unsure, That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount: XXV. Thoughts hardly to>be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped... | |
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Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped ; All I could never be, All men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped. 
