 | Wirt Sikes - 1858 - Страниц: 132
...American Independence ! He does not live ; he merely prolongs an existence — just as an oyster does ! "We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;...not in figures on a dial ; We should count time by heart-thrrbs: He most lives Who thinks most, — feels the noblest, — acts the best. And he whose... | |
 | John Caird - 1858 - Страниц: 422
...into his brief existence, than he whose dull and stagnant being drags on to an inglorious old age. " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-tlirobs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." But if it be so, surely,... | |
 | 1859 - Страниц: 918
...into his brief existence, than he whose dull and stagnant being drags on to an inglorious old age. " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." But if it be so, surely, estimating life by this principle, it is only the Christian, the man who lives... | |
 | Michigan State Agricultural Society - 1859 - Страниц: 600
...former. w Life's more than breath and the quick round of bloodIt 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. Life's but a means unto an end, that end Beginning mean, and end to all things—God." How manifold... | |
 | William Swinton - 1859 - Страниц: 326
...to have a little more faith in heart-tellings aud a little less in the mere dictates of mortality. " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs." So saith Festus. And so did the Boy through childhood's long, various, agonizing years, away far up... | |
 | 1860 - Страниц: 204
...Locke. Life's more than breath, and the quick round of blood ; '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. — Festus. The Poetry of Earth is never dead !— Keats. With most men experience is like the stern-lights... | |
 | Margaret Cockburn Conkling, Henry Lunettes - 1860 - Страниц: 496
...few lines, embodying my own sentiments, and in a form much more impressive than I can command : — "We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths;...We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives WJto thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.1' I have somewhere met with a little bagatelle,... | |
 | 1860 - Страниц: 1040
...Christian sense is it true, — "We lire in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, nnt in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs....thinks most— feels the noblest— acts the best. A life like tliis belongs to the church universal. " Not unto us, О Lord, but unto Thy name, give... | |
 | Clerus pseud - 1861 - Страниц: 242
...the end be success I May it be the same with you also, 0 reader 1 CHAPTER X. THE PHASES OF LIFE. " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." WE must now pass over some nine or ten years, or we shall weary our readers by too long a story. We... | |
 | Levi Cooper Lane - 1861 - Страниц: 538
...you " press toward the mark for the prize of your high calling." And remember, with the poet, that " We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;...thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best. Life's but a means unto an end — that end, Beginning, mean and end to all things — GOD! • . •... | |
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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. 
