 | John Alexander Steuart - Authors, American - 1890 - 322 pages
...better put. There is something there beyond the reach of most humorists. Again, ' I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,...port of Heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind I and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and ' not drift, nor lie at anchor. There is one very... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 350 pages
...LIVES, SO LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OB SOME WAT MAKES GOOD THE FACULTIES OF HIMSELF." I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,...sometimes against it, — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. There is one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind which is really moving... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 268 pages
...LIVES, SO LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OR SOME WAY MAKES GOOD THE FACULTIES OF HIMSELF." I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,...sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. There is one very sad thing in old friendships,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 362 pages
...LIVES, so LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OR SOME WAY MAKES GOOD THE FACULTIES OF HIMSELF." I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving : To reach the porte of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, — but we must sail,... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1891 - 602 pages
...considering from the Deacon's Scrap-book : " I FIND," says Oliver Wendell Holmes, " that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving." THE LETTER BOX. EDITORIAL NOTE. THOSE of our readers who are interested in Mr. Fraser's description... | |
 | Oakland (Calif.). First Unitarian Church. Ladies - Quotations - 1891 - 108 pages
...sense, in an uncommon degree, is what the world calls wisdom. —Coleridge. The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. —Holmes. What an antiseptic is a pure life ! —Lowell. It is good to be children sometimes, and... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1891 - 1082 pages
...school term has decreased three days on an average for each district. We are told that the question is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. Another item is the number of pupils who are availing themselves of the opportunities of school. We... | |
 | Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1891 - 496 pages
...school term has decreased three days on an average for each district. We are told that the question is not so much where we stand as in what direction we aro moving. Another item is the number of pupils who are availing themselves of the opportunities of... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 374 pages
...LIVES, SO LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OK SOME WAY MAKES GOOD THE FACULTIES OF HIMSELF." I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,...sometimes against it, — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. There is one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind which is really moving... | |
 | 1892 - 406 pages
...LIVES, SO LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OK SOME WAY MAKES GOOD THE FACULTIES OF HIMSELF." I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand,...sometimes against it, — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. There is one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind which is really moving... | |
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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. 
