 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.  A New Spirit of the Age - Seite 355herausgegeben von - 1844 - 365 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | New Church gen. confer - 640 Seiten
...spiritual world, be that transition sudden or otherwise; for, after all, "We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures...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
...Well and truthfully does the poet Young picture this matter for us : " We live in deeds, not years, in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures...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
...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... | |
 | 1877 - 506 Seiten
...an elder, have ye never read that "We should count time by heart-throbs, Not by figures on a dial. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, Acts the best." a 0g FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS. LET me tell you, my young friends, some of the things I would do if I were... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1858 - 956 Seiten
...mindless vegetation. In those often quoted and almost hackneyed words, " 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." Ko doubt the Deity... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 Seiten
...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 ; In feelings, not in figures...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 i Whose... | |
 | 1845 - 732 Seiten
...wherein his soul had rest, As hath a sword from war. THE END OF LIFE. WE live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures...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 fat... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - 1845 - 428 Seiten
...might number a thousand days, — Spent as is this by nations of mankind. We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures...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... | |
 | 822 Seiten
...is not to be measured merely by the number of its days and years— " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures...Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." Reckoned in this way, she lived a long life. And herein is a great source of comfort. Many, in years... | |
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