 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 pages
...TRULY LIVES, so LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OH SOME WAY MAKES GOOD THE FACULTIES OF HIMSELF." I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, — but... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 376 pages
...TRULY LIVES, 80 LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OR SOME WAY MAKES GOOD THE FACULTIES OF HIMSELF." I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are 'ing. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail itiiues with the wind and sometimes against it,—... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1875 - 444 pages
...LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OR SOME WAY MAKES GOOD THE FACULTIES OF HIMSELF." I find the great tiling in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, — but... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 120 pages
...TRULY LIVES, so LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OR SOME WAY MAKES GOOD THE FACULTIES OF HIMSELF." I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, — but... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - 1078 pages
...TRULY LIVES, so LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OR SOME WAY MAKES GOOD THE FACULTIES OF HIMSELF." I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, — but... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 630 pages
...TRULY LIVES, SO LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OR SOME WAY MAKES GOOD THE FACULTIES OF HIMSELF." I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 640 pages
...SO LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OR SOME WAY MAKES GOOD THE FACULTIES OF HIMSELF." I find the greart thing in this world is, not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1883 - 264 pages
...real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other." TENDENCY. — " I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving." SECRETS.—" We never tell our secrets to people who jump tor them." FAME. — " Fame usually comes... | |
 | 1884 - 444 pages
...family record, the above being in relief. The following is countersunk : " I find the great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving." The cane is a marvel of hand-carving, every portion of which was done with a "jack-knife," and represents... | |
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. 
