 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 Seiten
...though the reverse is sometimes true. EXAMPLES. 1. I am come to save' life, not to destroy' it. 2. We live in deeds', not years', — in thoughts', not breaths',— In feel'ings, not in fig'ures on a di'nl. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, — feels the noblest,... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1849 - 446 Seiten
...encourage the most timid and needy, knowing that in this consists the greatest bliss and best reward. " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acta the best." We have said that Christianity was proudly contemned when most pure, and is adapted... | |
 | Chemical Society (Great Britain) - 1896 - 948 Seiten
...live as he lived. In thinking of Hofmann, I recall one of my favourite verses, by Bailey. " We lire in deeds not .years ; in thoughts not breaths, In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should couut time by heart throbs, lie most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." The... | |
 | 1849 - 556 Seiten
...""" ABT. IX.— REV. HIRAM WITHINGTO^.. .. fr . / Jv f IF it be true, as the poet tells us, that " he most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best," the lamented brother whose name we have placed at the head of this article deserves respectful and... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 388 Seiten
...are. " Life's more than breath, and the quick round of hlood; It is a great spirit, and a busy heart. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial." The memorial of goodness is everlasting. Whoever bears a working hand and a large love through the... | |
 | 1851 - 598 Seiten
...instant to its God : — "We live in deeds, not years, — in thoughts, not breaths, — In feelinys, not in figures on a dial. "We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives "Who thinks most, foels the noblest, acts the best." Had he lived a few moments longer, he would have listened to the... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1892 - 830 Seiten
...whose death to-day fills our hearts with sorrow. It affords a rich field for reflection. How true: "We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;...Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." " One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name." When his name was prominently... | |
 | David Thomas - 458 Seiten
...sabbath, all places a temple, all conduct a ritual, all language a psalm. This only is true life ! o " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best." Secondly. The true interests of life. What are they ? Secular possessions ? mental attainments ? social... | |
 | John P. Knox - 1852 - 292 Seiten
...: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors : and their works do follow them." '' We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...Who thinks most ; feels the noblest ; acts the best. And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest : Lives in one hour more than in years do some... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - 1852 - 578 Seiten
...longer seem Than if each year might number a thousand days, — Spent as is this by nations of mankind. We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most live* Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best. Life's but a means unto an end — that... | |
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best. 
