 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...  Thoughts that Inspire - Page 2221905Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...time by heart-throbs when they beat For God, for man, for duty. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best. Life is but a means unto an...end. Beginning, mean, and end to all things, God. JOANNA BAILLIE. THE WORTH OF FAME. OH ! who shall lightly say, that Fame Is nothing but an empty name!... | |
 | 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 - 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 - 1844 - 382 pages
...I/ives in one hour more than in yenrs do some Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along iheir veins. Life is but a means unto an end ; that end, Beginning, mean and end to all things — God. The dend have ail the glory of the world.'' — Festua, p. 63-3. We should at once decline to argue... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 358 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. And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest : Lives in one hour more than in years do some... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - 1845 - 428 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. Life's but a means unto an end — that end, Beginning, mean and end to all things — God. The dead... | |
 | 1845 - 732 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. And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest : Lives in one hour more than in years do some... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - 1845 - 430 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. Life's but a means unto an end — that end, Beginning, mean and end to all things — God. The dead... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 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. And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest: Lives in one hour more than in years do some i... | |
 | 822 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." Reckoned in this way, she lived a long life. And herein is a great source of comfort. Many, in years... | |
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