 | New Church gen. confer - 640 pagina’s
...a joyful transition to the spiritual world, be that transition sudden or otherwise; for, after all, "We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths...count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks the most, feels the noblest, acts the best." H. To use our fancy to our own misery is to abuse it,... | |
 | 1857 - 830 pagina’s
...great problem of your being. Well and truthfully does the poet Young picture this matter for us : " We live in deeds, not years, in thoughts, not breaths...dial ; We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lire* Who thinks most— feels the noblest— acts the best !" TENDENCY OF THE HEABT TO BELF-DECEPTION.... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1858 - 956 pagina’s
...and the hours of idle and mindless vegetation. In those often quoted and almost hackneyed words, " We live in deeds, not years — in thoughts, not breaths,...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... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 358 pagina’s
...little chance under ten or twelve,) we ought perhaps to introduce him at once in an extract : — " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...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... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 382 pagina’s
...twelve), we ought perhaps to introduce him at once in an extract : — " We live in deeds, not yeais ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures...Who thinks most ; feels the noblest ; acts the best. And he who•e heart beat-* quickest lives Hie longest : I/ives in one hour more than in yenrs do some... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 392 pagina’s
...little chance under ten or twelve,) we ought perhaps to introduce him at once in an extract : — " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...not in figures on a dial. We should count time by hoart-throba. Ho moat lives Who thinka most ; feels the nohloat ; acts the best. And he whoao honrt... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - 1845 - 428 pagina’s
...longer seem Than if each year might number a thousand days, — Spent as is this by nations of mankind. We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...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... | |
 | 822 pagina’s
...socket." But the length of a life is not to be measured merely by the number of its days and years— " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pagina’s
...touch and thrill us through the body ; And we are fools, and there 's an end of us. THE END OF LIFE. WE live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...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... | |
 | 1845 - 732 pagina’s
...loved him ! She was the sheath wherein his soul had rest, As hath a sword from war. THE END OF LIFE. WE live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...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... | |
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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. 
