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. The Value of Cheerfulness - Page 139edited by - 1904 - 194 pagesFull view - About this book
| Inez Nellie Canfield McFee - 1905 - 614 pages
...gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection."—The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. "I find the great thing in this world is not so much...sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."—The Autoerat. and it will be round and... | |
| Dexter Dwight Mayne - 1905 - 200 pages
...touch, nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening" "I find the great thing in this world is not so much...sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,—but we must sail and not drift nor lie at anchor" "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,... | |
| Dexter Dwight Mayne - 1905 - 200 pages
...touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." "I find the great thing in this world is not so much...sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,—but we must sail and not drift nor lie at anchor." "Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,... | |
| 1905 - 330 pages
...JULIA WARD HOWE. I felt that I was in the world to do something, and I thought I must. — WHITTIER. I find the great thing in this world is not so much...where we stand as in what direction we are moving. — HOLMES. I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being. —... | |
| 1905 - 848 pages
...and thus causes the clapper of the bell to vibrate and the bell to ring. 10 4 cubic feet. READING. a I find the great thing in this world is, not so much...where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. 6 To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, — but... | |
| 1905 - 626 pages
...membrane, (с) a cartilage ? READING Each of the following questions has 10 credits assigned to It. «. I find the great thing in this world is, not so much...where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. b. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, —... | |
| 1908 - 874 pages
...Sometimes the aim accomplished in everyday practice does not accord with the aim of creed, but "it matters not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving." I am convinced that many teachers regard the children with the attitude of a photographer. In the laboratory... | |
| Ella Warren Harrison - 1905 - 460 pages
...physician. IV. ARCHIBALD HOPKINS, sixth child of Archibald Hopkins and Elizabeth Gordon, died when a lad. The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. — OW Holmes. 1 • , II. WILLIAM H. HOPKINS, second child... | |
| Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 pages
...MAN TRULY LIVES, BO LONG A6 HE ACTS BIS NATURE, OR SOME WAT HAKES GOOD THE FACULTIES OF HIMSELF.' » I find the great thing in this world is not so much...the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the windao 74G HOLMES. and sometimes against it, — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.... | |
| George Herbert Betts - 1906 - 302 pages
...all forms of natural expression. We can only comfort ourselves with Holmes 's maxim, that it matters not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. And we certainly are moving toward a larger development and greater efficiency in expression on the... | |
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