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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. "
Macaulay - Page 293
by Richard H. Horne - 1844
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ..., Volume 27

New Church gen. confer - 640 pages
...a joyful transition to the spiritual world, be that transition sudden or otherwise; for, after all, "We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths...count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks the most, feels the noblest, acts the best." H. To use our fancy to our own misery is to abuse it,...
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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...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....
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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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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...

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...
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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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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...Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins. Life is but a means unto an end ; that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things — God. The dead...
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...touch and thrill us through the 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...longest: Lives in one hour more than in years do some i Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins. Life is but a means unto an end ; that end,...
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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...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...
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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...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...
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