| New Church gen. confer - 640 pages
...transition to the spiritual world, be that transition sudden or otherwise; for, after all, "We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings,...thinks the most, feels the noblest, acts the best." H. To use our fancy to our own misery is to abuse it, and to sin. The realm of the possible was given... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1852 - 494 pages
...make life longer seem Than if each year might number a thousand days. We live in deeds, not yean ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings) not in figures on a dial. We should coant time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. Natural... | |
| Methodist Episcopal Church - 1857 - 830 pages
...problem of your being. Well and truthfully does the poet Young picture this matter for us : " We live in deeds, not years, in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings,...dial ; We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lire* Who thinks most— feels the noblest— acts the best !" TENDENCY OF THE HEABT TO BELF-DECEPTION.... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1858 - 956 pages
...hours of idle and mindless vegetation. In those often quoted and almost hackneyed words, " We live in deeds, not years — in thoughts, not breaths, —...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... | |
| Richard H. Horne - Authors, English - 1844 - 330 pages
...chance under ten or twelve,) we ought perhaps to introduce him at once in an extract : — " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings,...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... | |
| Richard H. Horne - Authors, English - 1844 - 382 pages
...twelve), we ought perhaps to introduce him at once in an extract : — " We live in deeds, not yeais ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures...count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most ; feels the noblest ; acts the best. And he who•e heart beat-* quickest lives Hie longest :... | |
| Richard H. Horne - Authors, English - 1844 - 392 pages
...chance under ten or twelve,) we ought perhaps to introduce him at once in an extract : — " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings,...not in figures on a dial. We should count time by hoart-throba. Ho moat lives Who thinka most ; feels the nohloat ; acts the best. And he whoao honrt... | |
| Richard H. Horne - Authors, English - 1844 - 342 pages
...chance under ten or twelve,) we ought perhaps to introduce him at once in an extract : — " We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures ou a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most ; feels the noblest... | |
| Philip James Bailey - 1845 - 430 pages
...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 ; In feelings,...count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — . feels the noblest — acts the best. Life's but a means unto an end — that end, Beginning,... | |
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