 | Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 364 էջ
...learned, although our list might well be expanded to double its extent. THE SELFISH AND THE SOCIAL. " We live in deeds, not years ; in 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... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 էջ
...end. The time that bears no fruit, deserves no name. The man of wisdom, is the man of years. 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 lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest,... | |
 | 1853 - 706 էջ
...-what follows is a portion of my creed : — 1 We Hvc In deeds, not years: In thoughts, not breathe: In feelings, not In figures on a dial We should count time by heart-throbs. He most Itvta Who thinks most, ficls the noblest acts the best And he whose heart bests quickest, lives the... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 300 էջ
...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... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1854 - 590 էջ
...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 - 590 էջ
...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... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - 1854 - 430 էջ
...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 ; In feelings, not in Ugures on a dial. \ We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives .S Who thinks most — feels... | |
 | 1854 - 794 էջ
...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 էջ
...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... | |
 | Alice Gray (fict. name.) - 1855 - 204 էջ
...Alice's first introduction to that mine of harmless pleasure, Sir Walter Scott's novels. CHAPTER VI. "We live in deeds, not years — in thoughts, not...Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." BAILEY. DAY after day passed on, and Alice watched the arrival of the post with an G anxiety of expectation,... | |
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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. 
