| New Church gen. confer - 640 σελίδες
...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,... | |
| 1839 - 860 σελίδες
...seem Than if each year might number a thousand days, Spent as is this by nations of mankind. We lire in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In...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 Whose... | |
| Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 382 σελίδες
...genuine in its elements, and in its hopeful and indefatigable continuity. " We live in deeds, not yeara; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-lhrobs. lie most lives Who thinks most; feels the noblest; acts the beet. And he whose heartbeats... | |
| Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 342 σελίδες
...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 ; In feelings, not in figures ou a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most ; feels the noblest... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 σελίδες
...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...count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks moat ; feels the noblest ; acts the best And he who«! heart beata quickest lives the longest: Lives... | |
| Philip James Bailey - 1845 - 428 σελίδες
...longer seem Thanif each year mightnumber athousand days,— Spent as is this by nations of mankind. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. [lives We should count time by heart-throbs. He most Who thinks most—feels the noblest—acts the... | |
| Philip James Bailey - 1847 - 426 σελίδες
...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... | |
| Philip James Bailey - 1847 - 428 σελίδες
...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;...not in figures on a dial. We should count time by \vear\A\tto\y&. 1 Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best. Life's but a means unto... | |
| Literary gleanings - 1848 - 250 σελίδες
...untimely, who are fit to die. IHilman. TRUTH is immortal; no fragment of it ever dies. Mrs. Child. 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 beat; And he whose heart... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 σελίδες
...true. EXAMPLES. 1. I am come to save* life, not to destroy' it. 2. We live in deeds*, not years',—in thoughts', not breaths',— In feel'ings, not in fig'ures...count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most,—feels the noblest,—acts the best. 3. I come to bury' Cesar, not to praise' him. 4. It is... | |
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