 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.  Self Culture - עמוד 241898תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Charles Manson Taggart - 1856 - 496 דפים
...to-day. The lines of Festus, of which he was so fond, may be most appropriately applied to himself: — ' We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.' " Affectionately your friend and brother, " RUSH B. SHIPPEN. " Chicago, April 10, 1855." Such was the... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 דפים
...behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages. PHILLIP JAMES BAILEY. Festus. We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. THOMAS K. HERVEY. Tiie Devil's Progress. The tomb of him who would have made The world too glad and... | |
 | 1856 - 902 דפים
...я knowledge of the truth, and enable him to follow its dictates without flattery or detraction. ' We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...Who thinks most— feels the noblest — acts the best.1 EARLY RISING. — I would inscribe on the curtains of your bed, and the walls of your chamber,... | |
 | Mary Catherine Jackson - 1856 - 320 דפים
...this London season, older by years, than I did before. Do you remember those lines in " Festus." ' " ' We live in deeds, not years — in thoughts, not breaths,...not in figures on a dial, We should count time by heart throbs.' " " Just so," exclaimed Leila, " and they illustrate mine, too ; anything, whether it... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 360 דפים
...not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections but to regulate them. (Rule, and Remark t.) We live in deeds not years ; in thoughts not breaths ; in feelings not in figures on a dial. (Rule.) Novel-reading is generally calculated to weaken if not to debase the moral powers. (Rule, and... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 364 דפים
...not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections but to regulate them. (Rule, and Remark i.) We live in deeds not years; in thoughts not breaths; in feelings not in figures on a dial. (Rule.) Novel-reading is generally calculated to weaken if not to debase the moral powers. (Rule, and... | |
 | Sara Tappan Lawrence Robinson - 1856 - 412 דפים
...demand that one should live, not for self, but out of self, and in realizing the beauty of the poem, " We live in deeds, not years, In thoughts, not breaths, in feelings, Not in figures on a dial. He lives most Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best. ' ' With a constant use of faculties... | |
 | Charles Manson Taggart - 1856 - 518 דפים
...inculcating in his public and private teachings the paternity of God, and the brotherhood of man. " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." Thus early ended the life *f this... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 188 דפים
...courage without prudence, and peacefulness without principle, are dangerous qualities. (Remark e.) We live in deeds not years ; in thoughts not breaths ; in feelings not in figures on a dial. Novel-reading is generally calculated to weaken if not to debase the moral powers. (Rule, and Remark... | |
 | Harriot Kesia Hunt - 1856 - 472 דפים
...deeds, not years, in thoughts not breath, In feelings, not in figures on a dial ; We should count life by heart-throbs — he most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best." FESTUS. THERE are autumnal mornings when the air is burdened with an intensity of odors so peculiar... | |
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