 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.  Summer Days and Winter Evenings - Strana 53autor/autoři: Rev. H. T. Howat - 1878 - 361 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | New Church gen. confer - 1852 - 494 str.
...Nature, receives from it the greatest number of impressions. Admirably expressed in ' Festus' : — Life's more than breath, and the quick round of blood ; Tis a great spirit and a busy heart. The coward and the small in soul scarce do live. One gencrous feeling— one great thought— one deed... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1926 - 760 str.
...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... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 342 str.
...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... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - 1845 - 428 str.
...seem Than if each year mightnumber athousand days,— Spent as is this by nations of mankind. Welive 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... | |
 | George Hooker Colton, James Davenport Whelpley - 1847 - 1376 str.
...to die ? I cannot hold the meaning more than can An oak's arms clasp the blast that blows on it." " We live in deeds, not years, in thoughts, not breaths. In feelings, not in figures on a dial." " Great thoughts are still as stars ; »nd truths, like suns, Stir not though many systems tend round... | |
 | 1847 - 722 str.
...to die ? I cannot hold the meaning more than can An oak's arms clasp the blast that blows on it." " We live in deeds, not years, in thoughts, not breaths. In feelings, not in figures on a dial." "Great thoughts are still as stars; and truths, like suns, Stir not though many systems tend round... | |
 | 1847 - 722 str.
...to die ? I cannot hold the meaning more than can An oak's arms clasp the blast that blows on it." " We live in deeds, not years, in thoughts, not breaths. In feelings, not in figures on a dial." " Great thoughts are still as stars ; and truths, like suns, Stir not though many systems tend round... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 str.
...though the reverse is sometimes 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 on a di'nl. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, — feels the noblest,... | |
 | Chemical Society (Great Britain) - 1896 - 948 str.
...live as he lived. In thinking of Hofmann, I recall one of my favourite verses, by Bailey. " We lire in deeds not .years ; in thoughts not breaths, In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should couut time by heart throbs, lie most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." The... | |
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