 | Philip James Bailey - 1845 - 430 pages
...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...thinks most — . feels the noblest — acts the best. Life's but a means unto an end — that end, Beginning, mean and end to all things — God. The dead... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...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...Who thinks most ; feels the noblest ; acts the best. And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest: Lives in one hour more than in years do some i... | |
 | Periodicals - 1845 - 732 pages
...loved him ! She was the sheath wherein his soul had rest, As hath a sword from war. THE END OF LIFE. WE live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...Who thinks most ; feels the noblest ; acts the best. And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest : Lives in one hour more than in years do some... | |
 | 822 pages
...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...Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." Reckoned in this way, she lived a long life. And herein is a great source of comfort. Many, in years... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - English literature - 1845 - 428 pages
...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...thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best. Life's but a means unto an end — that end, Beginning, mean and end to all things — God. The dead... | |
 | 1872 - 812 pages
...century. I would rather be a man for a century than one of the infirm creatures for a millenninm. "We lire in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In...a dial ; We should count time by heart-throbs ; he lives longest Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." One year now, blessed as we are with... | |
 | Philip James Bailey - English literature - 1845 - 428 pages
...seem Than if each year mightnumber athousand days,— Spent as is this by nations of mankind. Welive in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. [lives We should count time by heart-throbs. He most Who thinks most—feels the noblest—acts the... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...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...Who thinks most ; feels the noblest ; acts the best. And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest: Lives in one hour more than in years do some Whose... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 302 pages
...glories all! The pure devotion of thy generous heart Shall live in Heaven, of which it was a part . We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths...thinks most— feels the noblest— acts the best; And he whose heart beats quickest, lives the longest; Lives in one hour more than in years do some,... | |
 | United States - 1846 - 524 pages
...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...count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most^-feels the noblest-acts the best."— Pp. SO-81 As specimens of affluent description, Feetus is,... | |
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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. 
