 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 páginas
...PHILIP JAMES BAILEY. THE TRUE MEASURE OF LIFE. WE live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breath; In feelings, not in figures on the dial." We should count time by heart-throbs when they beat For God, for man, for duty. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels noblest,... | |
 | 1857 - 830 páginas
...great problem of your being. 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 on a dial ; We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lire* Who thinks most— feels the noblest—... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1926 - 760 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1877 - 506 páginas
...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 páginas
...and the hours of idle and 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... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 358 páginas
...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 on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most ; feels the noblest ; acts... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 342 páginas
...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 - 430 páginas
...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 ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — . feels the noblest... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 páginas
...touch and thrill us through the 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 on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most ; feels the noblest ;... | |
 | 822 páginas
...socket." But the length of a life 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 on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts... | |
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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. 
