 | American literature - 1853 - 708 pages
...shall know when I get there ; meanwhile remember that what follows is a portion of my creed : — ** We live In deeds, not years: In thoughts, not breaths...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... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...morning from the shades of night — Serene, though clouds hang over it. ALABIC A. WATTS. HOW TO LIVE. 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. ADVERTISEMENTS. As BEAUTTTUL POETBY... | |
 | C B Porter - Temperance - 1853 - 336 pages
...yearning breast coldly borne away ,e worshiped one, too good and pure In t]"s '!** world to stay. dtnnt. 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... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American essays - 1853 - 314 pages
...learned, although our list might well be expanded to double its extent. THE SELFISH AND THE SOCIAL. " 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 ; And he whose heart... | |
 | F. S., Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 306 pages
...loan icd, although our list might well be expanded to double its extent. THE SELFISH AND THE SOCIAL. " 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 ; And he whose heart... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American essays - 1853 - 364 pages
...learned, although our list might well be expanded to double its extent. THE SELFISH AND THE SOCIAL. " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. U'e should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best... | |
 | Edward Brooks Hall - 1853 - 458 pages
...of common life. Already had she learned the great truth, which to many comes late, if at all, — " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial." Heretofore she had always had an object to live for, — some one dependent upon her affection and... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...end. The time that bears no fruit, deserves no name. The man of wisdom, is the man of years. Young. We live in deeds, not years — in thoughts, not breaths — In feelings, not in figures on the dial ; We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest,... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 706 pages
...-what follows is a portion of my creed : — 1 We Hvc In deeds, not years: In thoughts, not breathe: In feelings, not In figures on a dial We should count time by heart-throbs. He most Itvta Who thinks most, ficls the noblest acts the best And he whose heart bests quickest, lives... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1854 - 590 pages
...Festus.' Life's more than breath, and the quick round of Wood; Tis a great spirit and a busy heart. 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. To measure life by years is, to the true... | |
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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. 
