 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 Springs of Character - Page 11de Alfred Taylor Schofield - 1901 - 248 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | New Church gen. confer - 1852 - 494 pages
...make life longer seem Than if each year might number a thousand days. We live in deeds, not yean ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings) not in figures on a dial. We should coant time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. Natural... | |
 | 1857 - 830 pages
...great problem of your being. Well and truthfully does the poet Young picture this matter for us : " We live in deeds, not years, in thoughts, not breaths...not in figures on a dial ; We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lire* Who thinks most— feels the noblest— acts the best !" TENDENCY OF THE... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1926 - 760 pages
...present in the matter of longevity. But, as our great poet BAIT.EY remarks in his Festus : — "We livo in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In...feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count lime by heart-throbs . . ." Uniquity is not to be confounded with length of years. It depends on what... | |
 | 1877 - 506 pages
...an elder, have ye never read that "We should count time by heart-throbs, Not by figures on a dial. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, Acts the best." a 0g FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS. LET me tell you, my young friends, some of the things I would do if I were... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1858 - 956 pages
...and the hours of idle and mindless vegetation. In those often quoted and almost hackneyed words, " We live in deeds, not years — in thoughts, not breaths,...Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." Ko doubt the Deity acted not arbitrarily in allotting to the early patriarchs two, three, six or nine... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 358 pages
...little chance under ten or twelve,) we ought perhaps to introduce him at once in an extract : — " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...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... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 382 pages
...twelve), we ought perhaps to introduce him at once in an extract : — " We live in deeds, not yeais ; 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. And he who•e heart... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 342 pages
...little chance under ten or twelve,) we ought perhaps to introduce him at once in an extract : — " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures ou a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most ; feels the noblest... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - 1845 - 428 pages
...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...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. Life's but a means... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - 1845 - 430 pages
...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...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. Life's but a... | |
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