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 Gospel in All Lands - Page 21891Full view - About this book
| New Church gen. confer - 1852 - 494 pages
...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 mutations are emblems both of the external or corporeal life, and of the inner or spiritual... | |
| 1877 - 506 pages
...an elder, have ye never read that "We should count time by heart-throbs, Not by figures on a dial. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, Acts the best." a 0g FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS. LET me tell you, my young friends, some of the things I would do if I were... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1858 - 956 pages
...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 acted not arbitrarily in allotting to the early patriarchs two, three, six or nine... | |
| Richard H. Horne - Authors, English - 1844 - 330 pages
...little 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...And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest : -i Lives in one hour more than in years do some Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins.... | |
| Richard H. Horne - Authors, English - 1844 - 382 pages
...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...thinks most ; feels the noblest ; acts the best. And he who•e heart beat-* quickest lives Hie longest : I/ives in one hour more than in yenrs do some Whose... | |
| Philip James Bailey - English literature - 1845 - 428 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...thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best. Life's but a means unto an end — that end, Beginning, mean and end to all things — God. The dead... | |
| Philip James Bailey - 1845 - 430 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...thinks most — . feels the noblest — acts the best. Life's but a means unto an end — that end, Beginning, mean and end to all things — God. The dead... | |
| 822 pages
...socket." But 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...Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." Reckoned in this way, she lived a long life. And herein is a great source of comfort. Many, in years... | |
| Elizabeth Ritchie - 1846 - 120 pages
...upon her life at home. CHAPTER VI. LIFE AT HOME. ' We should count time by heart-throbs. He lives most Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best;...he whose heart beats quickest, lives the longest." IN the summer of 1844, Sarah bade farewell to W . Before returning to Burwell, her steps were directed... | |
| Quotations, English - 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...thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best. BAILEY'S Festus. 25. Slow pass our days in childhood — every day Seems like a century ; rapidly they... | |
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