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. Unity Pulpit - Página 31882Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1853 - 708 páginas
...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 : 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.... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 páginas
...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,... | |
| John Cumming - 1854 - 300 páginas
...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; 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."... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1854 - 590 páginas
...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 ; 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.... | |
| 1854 - 590 páginas
...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; 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."... | |
| Philip James Bailey - 1854 - 430 páginas
...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... | |
| John Wilson - 1855 - 360 páginas
...not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections but to regulate them. (Rule, and Remark i.) We live in deeds not years ; in thoughts not breaths ; in feelings not in figures on a dial. (Rule.) Novel-reading is generally calculated to weaken if not to debase the moral powers. (Rule, and... | |
| John Cumming - 1855 - 390 páginas
...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 ; 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... | |
| Alice Gray (fict. name.) - 1855 - 204 páginas
...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 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."... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 páginas
...dark offing of the mind. Unit, if s Feеtia. Living men look on all who live askanee. Bailey's Festus. We live in deeds, not years — in thoughts, not breaths — In feelings, not in figures on a dial ; We should eount urn* by heart-throbs. He most Who thinks most — fuels the noblest — aets the... | |
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