 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
 | John Caird - 1858 - 426 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." But if it be so, surely, estimating life by this principle, it is only the Christian, the man who lives... | |
 | James Harvey Tuttle - 1858 - 182 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. ROCHESTER, KY STBAH PHBBS OF CURTIS, BBTTS 4 CO. 1858. •7* Entered according to Act of Congress,... | |
 | Wirt Sikes - 1858 - 132 pages
...thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial ; We should count time by heart-thrrbs: 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 years do some, Whose... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1909 - 784 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." — FESTUS. President Dobic : The National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education is in... | |
 | Harriet B. Cooke - 1858 - 358 pages
...thoughts, not breath — 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." AT the close of August, 1819, the dear brother who had sought a southern home was called away from... | |
 | Michigan State Agricultural Society - 1859 - 600 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." How manifold... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 pages
...thoughts, not breaths, In feelings, not in figures on the dial ; We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best."* Jforb §!at0n has given us the same thought, yet more tersely : " A man that is young in years," he... | |
 | 1859 - 918 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." But if it be so, surely, estimating life by this principle, it is only the Christian, the man who lives... | |
 | S. M. Henry Davis - 1859 - 490 pages
...detracted from his essential consistency. " We should count time by heart-throbs, Not by hours upon a dial. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." Though his life was undistinguished by action, it glowed with all the elements of greatness. In his... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1916 - 838 pages
...for the present time and for its future generations. They run thus : " We live in deeds, not years ; He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." ' Whether Nottingham took the hint of the American Ambassador I know not, but the suggestion was not... | |
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