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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. "
Primary Education - Page 332
1903
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 51

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1858 - 690 pages
...MAN TRCLY LIVES, so LONG AS HE ACTS ais NATDRE, OR SOUE WAY MAEES GOOD THE FACCLTIES OF HIMSELF.' ' I find the great thing in this world is not so much...but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. There is one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind that is really moving onward. It is this...
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 pages
...EVERY MAN 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...but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. There is one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind that is really moving onward. It is this...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 51

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1858 - 710 pages
...LIVES, so LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OR SOME WAY MAKES 0001) THE PACr.LTIKS OF HIMSELF.' ' 1 tind the great thing in this world is not so much where...moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometime« with the wind, and sometimes «gainst it; but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor....
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The Autocrat of the breakfast table

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pages
...EVERY MAN 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 wo stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with...
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The autocrat of the breakfast table, with an intr. by G.A. Sala

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 244 pages
...EVERY MAN 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 \ve stand as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven we must sail sometimes with...
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: Every Man His Own Boswell

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 376 pages
...MANY 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,—...
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The new handbook of illustration; or, Treasury of themes, meditations [&c ...

E S. P - 1874 - 588 pages
...this world," confesses Holmes, " is not so much where we stand as what direction we are moving in. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes...but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor." Emblems. — " The ncorn," observes Nichol, " does not become an oak in a day; the ripened scholar...
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell

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...but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. There is one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind that is really moving onward. It is this...
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Cyclopadia of American Literature, Volume 2

Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - 1078 pages
...EVERY MAN TRULY LIVES, so LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OR SOME WAY MAKES GOOD THE FACULTIES OF HIMSELF." d throwing into There is one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind that is really movingonward, it is this:...
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Holmes Leaflets: Poems and Prose Passages from the Works of Oliver Wendell ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 120 pages
...EVERY MAN 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...but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. I always believed in life rather than in books. I suppose every day of earth, with its hundred thousand...
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