Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
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"Andrea del Sarto", line 98.Robert Browning
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A man's reach must exceed his grasp or what's a metaphor?
Marshall McLuhan
I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.
Og Mandino
We're deathly afraid of that stabbing word "pretentious," the word that students use to curse each other's ambition. It's a young person's word, a shortcut-to-thinking word. I'm a big fan of pretension. It means "an aspiration or intention that may or may not reach fulfillment." It doesn't mean failing upward. It means trying to exceed your grasp. Which is how things grow. [6/1/09]
Warren Ellis
"Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Short arm needs man to reach to Heaven,
So ready is Heaven to stoop to him.Francis Thompson
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