 | New Church gen. confer - 640 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1852 - 494 Seiten
...make life longer seem Than if each year might number a thousand days. We live in deeds, not yean ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings) not in figures on a dial. We should coant time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. Natural... | |
 | 1857 - 830 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1926 - 760 Seiten
...present in the matter of longevity. But, as our great poet BAIT.EY remarks in his Festus : — "We livo in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In...feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count lime by heart-throbs . . ." Uniquity is not to be confounded with length of years. It depends on what... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1858 - 956 Seiten
...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 - 392 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1872 - 812 Seiten
...century. I would rather be a man for a century than one of the infirm creatures for a millenninm. "We lire in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In...a dial ; We should count time by heart-throbs ; he lives longest Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." One year now, blessed as we are with... | |
 | 1846 - 524 Seiten
...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...count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most^-feels the noblest-acts the best."— Pp. SO-81 As specimens of affluent description, Feetus is,... | |
 | 1846 - 508 Seiten
...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...dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most liyee Who thinks most— feels the noblest— acts the ЪоЛ."—Рр. 80-81 As specimens of affluent... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - 1847 - 428 Seiten
...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...We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives 1 Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best. Life's but a means unto an end — that... | |
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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. 
