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 Young Englishwoman - Seite 159von BEETON - 1875Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| John Wilson - 1856 - 364 Seiten
...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... | |
| Charles Manson Taggart - 1856 - 518 Seiten
...inculcating in his public and private teachings the paternity of God, and the brotherhood of man. " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." Thus early ended the life *f this... | |
| Sara Tappan Lawrence Robinson - 1856 - 412 Seiten
...demand that one should live, not for self, but out of self, and in realizing the beauty of the poem, " We live in deeds, not years, In thoughts, not breaths, in feelings, Not in figures on a dial. He lives most Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best. ' ' With a constant use of faculties... | |
| 1856 - 796 Seiten
...nothing — but they are all ! R M. Mlt.UFS. We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breath« ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial ; We should count time by heart-throb*. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, act» the b«t : And he whose heart... | |
| Margaret Cockburn Conkling - 1857 - 506 Seiten
...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;...should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinlci most, feels the noblest, acts the best." I have somewhere met with a little bagatelle, somewhat... | |
| 1857 - 818 Seiten
...real, life is earnest," &c. Much more correctly, a poet not remarkable for a true philosophy says: ' We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best." Life is not altogether real. We also live a life... | |
| Ephraim Peabody - 1857 - 450 Seiten
...throbbing blood and flames in the whirl and tempest of the passions. And so the poet sings : — " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest,... | |
| Warren Chase - 1857 - 318 Seiten
...Their words and deeds like the thunders go ; Can ye stifle their voices ? — They answer, c No ! ' " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...should count time by heart-throbs : he most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best ; And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest."... | |
| 1857 - 676 Seiten
...shall know when I get there ; meanwhile remember that what follows is a portion of my creed: — M We live in deeds, not years : in thoughts, not breaths...should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best And he whose heart beats quickest, lives the longest... | |
| Philip James Bailey - 1857 - 400 Seiten
...thousand days,— Spent as is this by nations of mankind. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, iiot 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 Life "s but a means unto an end — that end, Beginning,... | |
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