 | 1877 - 506 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
 | 1849 - 556 sidor
...""" 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 sidor
...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 - 1853 - 364 sidor
...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... | |
 | 1854 - 794 sidor
...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... | |
 | Harriot Kesia Hunt - 1856 - 472 sidor
...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... | |
 | 1856 - 594 sidor
...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... | |
 | Charles Manson Taggart - 1856 - 518 sidor
...years, — in thoughts, not breaths, In feelings, not in figures on a dial ; We should count time l>y heart•throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." The last expressions and acts of our dying friends, it is true, possess to us peculiar interest as... | |
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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. 
