 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. And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest...  A Book for the Winter-evening Fireside - Page 95by Wirt Sikes - 1858 - 96 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard H. Horne - Authors, English - 1844 - 358 pages
...acts the best. And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest : Lives in one hour more than in years do some Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins. Festus, p. 62-3. " We do not make onr thoughts ; they grow in us Like grain in wood : the growth is... | |
 | Periodicals - 1845 - 732 pages
...acts the best. And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest : Lives in one hour more than in years do some Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins. Life is but a means unto an end ; that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things — God. The dead... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...acts the best. And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest: Lives in one hour more than in years do some Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins. Life is but a means unto an end ; that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things — God. The dead... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Literary Collections - 1848 - 372 pages
...acts the best ; And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest ; Lives in one hour more than in years do some Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins. Life is but a means unto an end ; that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things — God. The dead... | |
 | John P. Knox - Saint Thomas (United States Virgin Islands : Island) - 1852 - 292 pages
...acts the best. And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest : Lives in one hour more than in years do some Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins. Life is but a means unto an end ; that end, Beginning, mean and end to all things — God. The dead... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - American literature - 1853 - 434 pages
...acts the best ; And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest ; Lives in one hour more than in years do some Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins. Life is but a means unto an end ; that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things — God. The dead... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 710 pages
...noblest, acte the best And he whose heartbeats quickest, lives the longest; Lives in one hour more than in years do some Whose fat blood sleeps as It slips along their reins.41 AGNES BOND. II. GOETHE, speaking of the Christian religion, you remember, says: "Faith in... | |
 | 1857 - 676 pages
...acts the best And he whose heart beats quickest, lives the longest ; Lives in one hour more than in years do some Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins." AGNES BOND. II. GOETHE, speaking of the Christian religion, you remember, says: "Faith in it must be... | |
 | Buffalo (N.Y.) - 1865 - 98 pages
...acts the best. And he whose heart beats quickest, lives the longest ; Lives in one hour more than in years do some Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins. Life is but a means unto an end ; that end, Beginning mean, aud end to all things, God,' — And the... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American poetry - 1866 - 412 pages
...acts the best. And he whose heart beats quickest, lives the longest ; Lives in one hour more than in years do some, Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins. ALEXANDER SMITH'S vigorous verse may be exampled by the following brief passage on Intellectual Beauty... | |
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