 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...behind A voice that in the distance far away Wakens the slumbering ages. PHILLIP JAMES BAILEY. Festus. 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... | |
 | 1856 - 588 pages
...served our generation, and the will of God, and shall have fallen asleep in a good old age; for, " 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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 364 pages
...not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections but to regulate them. (Rule, and Remark i.) We live in deeds not years; in thoughts not breaths; in feelings not in figures on a dial. (Rule.) Novel-reading is generally calculated to weaken if not to debase the... | |
 | Charles Manson Taggart - Sermons, American - 1856 - 496 pages
...to-day. The lines of Festus, of which he was so fond, may be most appropriately applied to himself: — ' 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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 164 pages
...if you would know how old you are ! " Life Js more than breath and the quick round of blood ; 'T is a great spirit and a busy heart. We live in deeds,...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... | |
 | Warren Chase - 1857 - 318 pages
...Their words and deeds like the thunders go ; Can ye stifle their voices ? — They answer, c No ! ' " 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... | |
 | Margaret Cockburn Conkling - Etiquette - 1857 - 506 pages
...few lines, embodying my own sentiments, and in a form much more impressive than I can command : — "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 thinlci most, feels the... | |
 | 1857 - 676 pages
...shall know when I get there ; meanwhile remember that what follows is a portion of my creed: — M 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... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1857 - 818 pages
...real, life is earnest," &c. Much more correctly, a poet not remarkable for a true philosophy says: ' 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... | |
 | Ephraim Peabody - Sermons, American - 1857 - 450 pages
...throbbing blood and flames in the whirl and tempest of the passions. And so the poet sings : — " 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... | |
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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. 
