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. The Williams Quarterly - Seite 2871857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1853 - 708 Seiten
...shall know when I get there ; meanwhile remember that what follows is a portion of my creed : — ** 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 thau In years do some... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 Seiten
...Young. We live in deeds, not years — in thoughts, not breaths — In feelings, not in figures on the dial ; We should count time by heart-throbs. He most...Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. Bailey. Nor love thy life, nor hate ; but what thou livest, Live well ; how long or short permit to... | |
| Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 Seiten
...IY. "We live in deeds, not years ; in thonghts, not breaths ; In feelings not on figures 0n a dial. I We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives...thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best " — Festus. LONDON: PARTRIDGE, OAKEY & Co., 34, PATERNOSTER ROW; AND 70, EDGWARE ROAD. 1853. PARTRIDGE,... | |
| Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 364 Seiten
...thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. U'e should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best ; And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest." JAMES MARTINEAC. THE question whether man is... | |
| F. S., Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 306 Seiten
...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 ; And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest." JAMES MAP.TISEAU. TBE question whether man... | |
| John Cumming - 1854 - 300 Seiten
...silence, penetrate our hearts and shape our feelings and our pursuits. CHAPTER XL THE TRANSFORMED MIND. " We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;...Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." " Be ye transformed." — ROM. xii. 2. I HAVE now to show the converse of what I have endeavored to... | |
| 1854 - 590 Seiten
...Life's more then breath, and the quick round of blood ; It is a great spirit, and a busy heart. ****** We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;...Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." They should be told that he only is the highest style of man, whose beliefs and rules of action are... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1854 - 590 Seiten
...Festus.' Life's more than breath, and the quick round of Wood; Tis a great spirit and a busy heart. We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. To measure life by years is, to the true liver, to measure it rather by ages. If we do not feel its... | |
| 1854 - 794 Seiten
...thought!, not breaths; In feeling, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throhi. He most lives Who thinks most; feels the noblest; acts the best." CONTENTMENT. — " I never complained of my condition," says the Persian poet Saadi, "but once, when... | |
| John Cumming - 1855 - 390 Seiten
...great eternity which is almost thundering at our doors. If ever it was true, it is literally so now, " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." These lines more fully express the temper of national life than any words I can employ. Every man thus... | |
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