 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 Autocrat of the Breakfast-table - Σελίδα 105των Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1868 - 373 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1858 - 710 σελίδες
...LIVES, so LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OR SOME WAY MAKES 0001) THE PACr.LTIKS OF HIMSELF.' ' 1 tind the great thing in this world is not so much where...moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometime« with the wind, and sometimes «gainst it; but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 242 σελίδες
...EVERY 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 where \ve stand as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven we must sail sometimes with... | |
 | E S. P - 1874 - 588 σελίδες
...this world," confesses Holmes, " is not so much where we stand as what direction we are moving in. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes...but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor." Emblems. — " The ncorn," observes Nichol, " does not become an oak in a day; the ripened scholar... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 120 σελίδες
...EVERY 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. I always believed in life rather than in books. I suppose every day of earth, with its hundred thousand... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 630 σελίδες
...EVERY 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...sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, or lie at anchor. There is one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind that is really moving... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 640 σελίδες
...SO LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OR SOME WAY MAKES GOOD THE FACULTIES OF HIMSELF." I find the greart thing in this world is, not so much where we stand...sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, or lie at anchor. There is one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind that is really moving... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1883 - 234 σελίδες
...Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other." TENDENCY. — " I find the great thing in this world is not so much...where we stand as in what direction we are moving." SECRETS. — " We never tell our secrets to people who jump for them." PRAISE. — "You may set it... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1883 - 264 σελίδες
...Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other." TENDENCY. — " I find the great thing in this world is not so much...where we stand as in what direction we are moving." SECRETS.—" We never tell our secrets to people who jump tor them." FAME. — " Fame usually comes... | |
 | 1884 - 444 σελίδες
...family record, the above being in relief. The following is countersunk : " I find the great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving." The cane is a marvel of hand-carving, every portion of which was done with a "jack-knife," and represents... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 σελίδες
...Every 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. A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. It has come to you over a... | |
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