 | Chemical Society (Great Britain) - Chemistry - 1896 - 948 pages
...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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American literature - 1850 - 388 pages
...are. " Life's more than breath, and the quick round of hlood; It is a great spirit, and a busy heart. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial." The memorial of goodness is everlasting. Whoever bears a working hand and a large love through the... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1851 - 598 pages
...instant to its God : — "We live in deeds, not years, — in thoughts, not breaths, — In feelinys, not in figures on a dial. "We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives "Who thinks most, foels the noblest, acts the best." Had he lived a few moments longer,... | |
 | David Thomas - 458 pages
...sabbath, all places a temple, all conduct a ritual, all language a psalm. This only is true life ! o " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best." Secondly. The true interests of... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 830 pages
...whose death to-day fills our hearts with sorrow. It affords a rich field for reflection. How true: "We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;...on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." " One crowded hour of glorious life... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - 1852 - 578 pages
...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...on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most live* Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best. Life's but a means unto an end... | |
 | John P. Knox - Saint Thomas (United States Virgin Islands : Island) - 1852 - 292 pages
...: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors : and their works do follow them." '' We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most ; feels the noblest ; acts the best. And he whose heart beats quickest lives... | |
 | Spiritualism - 1850 - 426 pages
...than breath and the quick round of blood ; It is a great spirit and a busy heart. ******** \Ve live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should coum time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best."... | |
 | 1852 - 596 pages
...soon we know not, neither can we know. " We live in deeds, not yean — in thoughts, not breaths— ID 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." So live that in the spiritual life... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - American literature - 1853 - 434 pages
...him ; She was the sheath wherein his soul had rest, " As hath a sword from war." THE END OP LIFE. 11 We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most ; feels the noblest ; acts the best ; And he whose heart beats quickest... | |
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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. 
