 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.  Winnie and I. - 37. oldal1855 - 351 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | New Church gen. confer - 1852 - 494 oldal
...deed Of good, ere night, will 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. Natural... | |
 | 1857 - 830 oldal
...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 the best !" TENDENCY OF THE HEABT TO BELF-DECEPTION.... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1926 - 760 oldal
...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. It depends on what... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1858 - 956 oldal
...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 best." Ko doubt the Deity... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 330 oldal
...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 heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most ; feels the noblest ; acts the best. And he whose heart beats quickest... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 392 oldal
...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 best. And he whoao honrt... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - 1845 - 430 oldal
...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 the best. Life's but a means unto an... | |
 | 1872 - 812 oldal
...man for a century than one of the infirm creatures for a millenninm. "We lire in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial ; We should count time by heart-throbs ; he lives longest Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." One year now, blessed as we... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - 1845 - 428 oldal
...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 the best. Life's but a means unto an end... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 oldal
...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 best. And he whose heart beats quickest... | |
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