 | 1847 - 540 pages
...those sad autumnal hours, Or deem thy path of life shall bloom, all flowers. MRS. NORTON'S Dream. 24. We live in deeds, not years — in thoughts, not breaths...dial ; — We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best. BAILEY'S Feslus. 25. Slow pass... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - 1847 - 426 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;...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 unto an end... | |
 | 1847 - 526 pages
...those sad autumnal hours, Or deem thy path of life shall bloom, all flowers. MRS. NORTON'S Dream. 24. We live in deeds, not years — in thoughts, not breaths...dial ; — We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best. BAILEY'S Festus. 25. Slow pass... | |
 | 1851 - 790 pages
...betwixt life and death. She awoke and rose again, still a child in years, but a woman in feeling. " 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." The good chaplain... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1847 - 1376 pages
...to die ? I cannot hold the meaning more than can An oak's arms clasp the blast that blows on it." " We live in deeds, not years, in thoughts, not breaths. In feelings, not in figures on a dial." " Great thoughts are still as stars ; »nd truths, like suns, Stir not though many systems tend round... | |
 | 1847 - 722 pages
...to die ? I cannot hold the meaning more than can An oak's arms clasp the blast that blows on it." " We live in deeds, not years, in thoughts, not breaths. In feelings, not in figures on a dial." "Great thoughts are still as stars; and truths, like suns, Stir not though many systems tend round... | |
 | 1847 - 722 pages
...to die ? I cannot hold the meaning more than can An oak's arms clasp the blast that blows on it." " We live in deeds, not years, in thoughts, not breaths. In feelings, not in figures on a dial." " Great thoughts are still as stars ; and truths, like suns, Stir not though many systems tend round... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pages
...loved him ; She was the sheath wherein his soul had rest, As hath a sword from war." THE END OF LIFE. " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 pages
...though the reverse is sometimes true. EXAMPLES. 1. I am come to save' life, not to destroy' it. 2. We live in deeds', not years', — in thoughts', not breaths',— In feel'ings, not in fig'ures on a di'nl. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, — feels the noblest,... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1849 - 446 pages
...encourage the most timid and needy, knowing that in this consists the greatest bliss and best reward. " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acta the best." We have said that Christianity was proudly... | |
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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. 
