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" 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. "
Mental and Moral Excellence and How to attain it. Memorials of J. Hessel. By ... - Page 196
by John HESSEL, Joshua PRIESTLEY - 1861 - 253 pages
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1852 - 494 pages
...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...
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 17

1857 - 830 pages
...great 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...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...
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Punch, Volume 170

Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1926 - 760 pages
...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. It depends on what...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 16

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1858 - 956 pages
...and the hours of idle and mindless vegetation. In those often quoted and almost hackneyed words, " 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." Ko doubt the Deity...
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Macaulay

Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 358 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...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...
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A New Spirit of the Age, Volume 1

Richard H. Horne - 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 on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most ; feels the noblest ; acts the best. And he who•e heart...
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A New Spirit of the Age, Volume 2

Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 342 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 ; In feelings, not in figures ou a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most ; feels the noblest...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 2

1845 - 732 pages
...loved him ! She was the sheath wherein his soul had rest, As hath a sword from war. THE END OF LIFE. 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...
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The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository, Volume 73

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...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." Reckoned in this way,...
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Festus: A Poem

Philip James Bailey - 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...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...
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