 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...PHILIP JAMES BAILEY. THE TRUE MEASURE OF LIFE. WE live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breath; In feelings, not in figures on the dial." We should count time by heart-throbs when they beat For God, for man, for duty. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels noblest,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1858 - 956 pages
...words, " 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." Ko doubt the Deity acted not arbitrarily in allotting to the early patriarchs... | |
 | Baptists - 1744 - 596 pages
...care. 1 Jfin'rf SfUtltona. THE TRUE MEASURE OF LIFE. live in deeds, not years; in thought, not breaih ; In feelings, not in figures on the dial. We should count time by heart-throbs when they beat For God, for man, for duty. He moat lives, Who thinks moat, feels noblest,... | |
 | 1851 - 790 pages
...feeling. " 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." The good chaplain had placed before my Lady Winifred in its true light,... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Agriculture - 1850 - 688 pages
...wield the spade, the sickle, and the scythe. We live in deeds, not years ; in thought, not breath ; In feelings, not in figures on the dial. We should count time by heart-throbs, when they beat For God, for man, for duty. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels noblest,... | |
 | Child rearing - 1851 - 596 pages
...bolh here and hereafter ! THE MEASURE OF LIFE.. WE live in deeds, not years - in thought, not breath ; In feelings, not in figures on the dial. We should count time by heart throbs when they beat For God, for man, for duty He most lives Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.... | |
 | Child rearing - 1851 - 436 pages
...bolh here and hereafter ! THE MEASURE OFLIFE. WE live in deeds, not years ; in thought, not breath ; In feelings, not in figures on the dial. We should count time by heart throbs when they beat For God, for man, for duty lie most lives Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American essays - 1853 - 314 pages
...SOCIAL. " 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." i JAMES; MARTINEAU.... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...no name. The man of wisdom, is the man of years. Young. We live in deeds, not years — in thoughts, not breaths — In feelings, not in figures on the dial ; We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. Bailey. Nor love thy... | |
 | F. S., Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 306 pages
...SOCIAL. " 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." JAMES MAP.TISEAU.... | |
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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. 
