 | 1856 - 588 sider
...will of God, and shall have fallen asleep in a good old age; for, " 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." JGS THE PEACE, IN SOME... | |
 | Mary Catherine Jackson - 1856 - 320 sider
...in " Festus." '« < -^r e jj ve jjj deeds, not years—in thoughts, not breaths, In feelings—not in figures on a dial, We should count time by heart throbs.' " " Just so," exclaimed Leila, " and they illustrate mine, too ; anything, whether it be one's dress,... | |
 | 1857 - 818 sider
...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...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 is not altogether... | |
 | Warren Chase - 1857 - 318 sider
...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...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... | |
 | Margaret Cockburn Conkling - 1857 - 506 sider
...few lines, embodying my own sentiinents, and in a form much more impressive than I can command :— “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 lises W¿o thinks most,feels the noblest, acts the but.” I have somewhere met... | |
 | Ephraim Peabody - 1857 - 450 sider
...blood and flames in the whirl and tempest of the passions. And so the poet sings: — ' 1 " Wo 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. And he whose heart beats... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 164 sider
...Í " Life 's more than breath and the quick round of blood ; 'T 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." The memorial of goodness is everlasting. Whoever bears a working hand and a large love through the... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 192 sider
...courage without prudence, and peacefulness without principle, are dangerous qualities. (Remark e.) We live in deeds not years; in thoughts not breaths; in feelings not in figures on a dial. Novel-reading is generally calculated to weaken if not to debase the moral powers. (Rule, and Remark... | |
 | Edward Brooks Hall - 1857 - 482 sider
...of common life. Already had she learned the great truth, which to many comes late, if at all,— " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial." Heretofore she had always had an object to live for, — some one dependent upon her affection and... | |
 | 1855 - 702 sider
...unbelievers 1 We say, feelings make the man—opinion» are but the outer dress. We live, as saitli Festus, " In feelings, not in figures on a dial ; We should count time by hearl-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most—feele the noblest—acts the best I" " Nature," says... | |
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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. 
