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. Straight to the Mark - Página 163por Thomas Street Millington - 1883 - 431 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| New Church gen. confer - 1852 - 494 páginas
...make life longer seem Than if each year might number a thousand days. We live in deeds, not yean ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings) not in figures on a dial. We should coant time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.... | |
| 1857 - 830 páginas
...problem of your being. Well and truthfully does the poet Young picture this matter for us : " 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 lire* Who thinks most— feels the noblest— acts... | |
| Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1926 - 760 páginas
...present in the matter of longevity. But, as our great poet BAIT.EY remarks in his Festus : — "We livo in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count lime by heart-throbs . . ." Uniquity is not to be confounded with length of years.... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1858 - 956 páginas
...hours of idle and mindless vegetation. In those often quoted and almost hackneyed words, " 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... | |
| Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 392 páginas
...chance under ten or twelve,) we ought perhaps to introduce him at once in an extract : — " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by hoart-throba. Ho moat lives Who thinka most ; feels the nohloat ; acts the... | |
| Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 342 páginas
...chance under ten or twelve,) we ought perhaps to introduce him at once in an extract : — " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures ou a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most ; feels the noblest... | |
| Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 382 páginas
...twelve), we ought perhaps to introduce him at once in an extract : — " We live in deeds, not yeais ; 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... | |
| Philip James Bailey - 1845 - 430 páginas
...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 figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — . feels the noblest — acts... | |
| 822 páginas
...the length of a life is not to be measured merely by the number of its days and years— " 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."... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 páginas
...thrill us through the body ; And we are fools, and there 's an end of us. THE END OF LIFE. 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... | |
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