 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.  The Unitarian - Pàgina 6editat per - 1897Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 pàgines
...EVERY MAN TRULY LIVES, so LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OH SOME WAY MAKES GOOD THE FACULTIES OF HIMSELF." I find the great thing in this world is not so much...but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. There is one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind that is really moving onward. It is this... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1858 - 710 pàgines
...LIVES, so LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OR SOME WAY MAKES 0001) THE PACr.LTIKS OF HIMSELF.' ' 1 tind the great thing in this world is not so much where...moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometime« with the wind, and sometimes «gainst it; but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pàgines
...EVERY MAN TRULY 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 wo stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 242 pàgines
...EVERY MAN TRULY 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 \ve stand as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven we must sail sometimes with... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 376 pàgines
...MANY TRULY LIVES, 80 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 'ing. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail itiiues with the wind and sometimes against it,—... | |
 | E S. P - 1874 - 588 pàgines
...this world," confesses Holmes, " is not so much where we stand as what direction we are moving in. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes...but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor." Emblems. — " The ncorn," observes Nichol, " does not become an oak in a day; the ripened scholar... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1875 - 444 pàgines
...LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OR SOME WAY MAKES GOOD THE FACULTIES OF HIMSELF." I find the great tiling in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in...but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. There is one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind that is really moving onward. It is this... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 120 pàgines
...EVERY MAN TRULY 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...but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. I always believed in life rather than in books. I suppose every day of earth, with its hundred thousand... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - 1078 pàgines
...EVERY MAN TRULY LIVES, so LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OR SOME WAY MAKES GOOD THE FACULTIES OF HIMSELF." d throwing into There is one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind that is really movingonward, it is this:... | |
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