 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 388 pagina’s
...are. " Life's more than breath, and the quick round of hlood; It is a great spirit, and a busy heart. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial." The memorial of goodness is everlasting. Whoever bears a working hand and a large love through the... | |
 | 1851 - 598 pagina’s
...instant to its God : — "We live in deeds, not years, — in thoughts, not breaths, — In feelinys, not in figures on a dial. "We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives "Who thinks most, foels the noblest, acts the best." Had he lived a few moments longer,... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - 1852 - 578 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...figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most live* Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best. Life's but a means unto an end... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1892 - 830 pagina’s
...whose death to-day fills our hearts with sorrow. It affords a rich field for reflection. How true: "We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;...figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." " One crowded hour of glorious life... | |
 | John P. Knox - 1852 - 292 pagina’s
...: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors : and their works do follow them." '' We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...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... | |
 | David Thomas - 458 pagina’s
...sabbath, all places a temple, all conduct a ritual, all language a psalm. This only is true life ! o " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best." Secondly. The true interests... | |
 | 1850 - 426 pagina’s
...than breath and the quick round of blood ; It is a great spirit and a busy heart. ******** \Ve live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should coum time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best."... | |
 | 1852 - 596 pagina’s
...soon we know not, neither can we know. " We live in deeds, not yean — in thoughts, not breaths— ID 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." So live that in the spiritual... | |
 | 1853 - 708 pagina’s
...shall know when I get there ; meanwhile remember that what follows is a portion of my creed : — ** We live In deeds, not years: In thoughts, not breaths...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,... | |
 | C B Porter - 1853 - 336 pagina’s
...yearning breast coldly borne away ,e worshiped one, too good and pure In t]"s '!** world to stay. dtnnt. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;...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... | |
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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. 
