 | 1877 - 506 pages
...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 - United States - 1858 - 956 pages
...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." Ko doubt the Deity acted not arbitrarily in allotting to the early patriarchs two, three, six or nine... | |
 | 1851 - 790 pages
...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." The good chaplain had placed before my Lady Winifred in its true light, the crime she had committed... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1849 - 556 pages
...""" ABT. IX.— REV. HIRAM WITHINGTO^.. .. fr . / Jv f IF it be true, as the poet tells us, that " he most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best," the lamented brother whose name we have placed at the head of this article deserves respectful and... | |
 | F. S., Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 306 pages
...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." JAMES MAP.TISEAU. TBE question whether man... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American essays - 1853 - 364 pages
...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 ; And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest." JAMES MARTINEAC. THE question whether man is... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1854 - 590 pages
...existence.'* Grandly expressed in ' Festus.' Life's more than breath, and the quick round of Wood; Tis a great spirit and a busy heart. We live in deeds,...immensity, it is to confess to inactivity and slumber. When we would ask ourselves how old we are, we should find that we must cast up, not anniversaries,... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 794 pages
...thought!, not breaths; In feeling, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throhi. He most lives Who thinks most; feels the noblest; acts the best." CONTENTMENT. — " I never complained of my condition," says the Persian poet Saadi, "but once, when... | |
 | Education - 1856 - 594 pages
...not years ; in thoughts, not breath ; In feelings, not in figures on the dial. We should count life by heart-throbs ; he most lives, Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." A biographical sketch of the deceased has been promised for the "Teacher." We will not attempt to anticipate... | |
 | Harriot Kesia Hunt - Boston (Mass.) - 1856 - 472 pages
...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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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. 
