In the long run men hit only what • they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, / they had better aim at something high. Walden - Page 44by Henry David Thoreau - 1882 - 357 pagesFull view - About this book
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - Clergy - 1883 - 466 pages
...being in this climate, though he says, as if to show that the last is of the nature of a luxury, " There are instances of men having done without it for long periods, in colder countries than this." The most rudimentary form of shelter is the screen the fisherman puts up on the ice to keep off the... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 482 pages
...being in this climate, though he says, as if to show that the last is of the nature of a luxury, " There are instances of men having done without it for long periods, in colder countries than this." The most rudimentary form of shelter is the screen the fisherman puts up on the ice to keep off the... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - Authors, American - 1891 - 454 pages
...being in this climate, though he says, as if to show that the last is of the nature of a luxury, " There are instances of men having done without it for long periods, in colder countries than this." The most rudimentary form of shelter is the screen the fisherman puts up on the ice to keep off the... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 458 pages
...being in this climate, though he says, as if to show that the last is of the nature of a luxury, " There are instances of men having done without it for long periods, in colder countries than this." The most rudimentary form of shelter is the screen the fisherman puts up on the ice to keep off the... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - American literature - 1892 - 486 pages
...being in this climate, though he says, as if to show that the last is of the nature of a luxury, " There are instances of men having done without it for long periods, in colder countries than this." The most rudimentary form of shelter is the screen the fisherman puts up on the ice to keep off the... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 478 pages
...being in this climate, though he says, as if to show that the last is of the nature of a luxury, " There are instances of men having done without it for long periods, in colder countries than this." The most rudimentary form of shelter is the screen the fisherman puts up on the ice to keep off the... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 536 pages
...mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that the corporations may be enriched. In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore,...immediately, they had better aim at something high. ECONOMY As for a Shelter, I will not deny that this is now a necessary of life, though there are instances... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - Natural history - 1904 - 268 pages
...not_.ihatUH»a*J«i)*l- may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that the corporations may be enriched. In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore,...better aim at something high. As for a Shelter, I do not deny that this is now a necessary of / life, though there are instances of men having done without... | |
| Erie (Pa.). City Planning Committee - Art, Municipal - 1913 - 268 pages
...they Know because tnere rnay be sorne hidden particle of error in their belief —W. Garrett Harder JN the long run men hit only what they aim at Therefore,...immediately, they had better aim at something high HENRY DAVID THOREAU Legal Aspects By Legal Sub-Committee HE legal aspect of the city planning movement... | |
| Education - 1914 - 690 pages
...and references for a more extended and intensive study of the play and its author are included. — In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fall immediately, they had better aim at something high. — Thoreau. — It is a blessing for a child... | |
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