 | Martha S. Hussey - 1891 - 158 pages
...'Tis only noble to be good ; Kind hearts are more than coronets. And simple faith than Norman blood. against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. 4 To claim the Arctic came the sun With banners of the burning zone, Unrolled upon their airy spars.... | |
 | Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - 1891 - 496 pages
...school term has decreased three days on an average for each district. We are told that the question is not so much where we stand as in what direction we aro moving. Another item is the number of pupils who are availing themselves of the opportunities of... | |
 | 1892 - 406 pages
...MAN TRULY LIVES, SO LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OK 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 which is really moving onward. It is... | |
 | William Benton Chamberlain - 1892 - 408 pages
...short, medium, or long; — and mark them with single, double, or triple bars, as above described. I find the great thing in this world is not so much...we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.— Holmes. There is a perenj1ial nobleness, and even sacredness in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 374 pages
...MAN TRULY LIVES, SO LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OK 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 which is really moving onward. It is... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 348 pages
...MAIT 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. There is one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind which is really moving onward. It is... | |
 | 1892 - 216 pages
...gossip of society would perish if the books that are truly worth reading were but read. — Dawson, I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. — Holmes. A parent who sends his son into the world uneducated and without skill in any art or science... | |
 | American Institute of Homeopathy - 1892 - 1076 pages
...will later be involved in the throes of an incurable phthisis or consumption. ""I find the greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail and not drift nor lie... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1893 - 320 pages
...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. There is one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind which is really moving onward. It is... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - 1970 - 484 pages
...Water, and Forest Research 106 International Research 108 EPILOG . 111 July 1971 A NEW DIRECTION "/ find the great thing in this world is not so much...where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. " Oliver Wendell Holmes During the second year of this Administration the new direction in agricultural... | |
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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. 
