 | 1855 - 692 pagina’s
...1 We say, feelings make the man — opinion* are but the outer dress. We live, as aaith Festus, ' " In feelings, not in figures on a dial ; We should count time by heart-tArott. He most lives, Who thints rii.ist— /"Mto **s noMeft — acts the best !" "Nature,"... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pagina’s
...— " Life's more than breath, and the quick round of blood, "Tis a great spirit and a busy heart. 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." A recent writer gives expression... | |
 | Charles Manson Taggart - 1856 - 496 pagina’s
...to-day. The lines of Festus, of which he was so fond, may be most appropriately applied to himself: — ' 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.' " Affectionately your friend and... | |
 | 1856 - 588 pagina’s
...served our generation, and the will of God, and shall have fallen asleep in a good old age; for, " 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." JG S, THE PEACE, IN SOME OF ITS KELIGIOUS... | |
 | 1856 - 902 pagina’s
...я knowledge of the truth, and enable him to follow its dictates without flattery or detraction. ' 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.1 EARLY RISING. — I would inscribe... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pagina’s
...behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages. PHILLIP JAMES BAILEY. Festus. 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. THOMAS K. HERVEY. Tiie Devil's Progress.... | |
 | Mary Catherine Jackson - 1856 - 320 pagina’s
...this London season, older by years, than I did before. Do you remember those lines in " Festus." ' " ' We live in deeds, not years — in thoughts, not breaths,...not in figures on a dial, We should count time by heart throbs.' " " Just so," exclaimed Leila, " and they illustrate mine, too ; anything, whether it... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 188 pagina’s
...courage without prudence, and peacefulness without principle, are dangerous qualities. (Remark e.) We live in deeds not years ; in thoughts not breaths ; in feelings not in figures on a dial. Novel-reading is generally calculated to weaken if not to debase the moral powers. (Rule, and Remark... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 360 pagina’s
...not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections but to regulate them. (Rule, and Remark t.) We live in deeds not years ; in thoughts not breaths ; in feelings not in figures on a dial. (Rule.) Novel-reading is generally calculated to weaken if not to debase the moral powers. (Rule, and... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 364 pagina’s
...not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections but to regulate them. (Rule, and Remark i.) We live in deeds not years; in thoughts not breaths; in feelings not in figures on a dial. (Rule.) Novel-reading is generally calculated to weaken if not to debase the moral powers. (Rule, and... | |
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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. 
