 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 279 pages
...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 where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 107 pages
...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 we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with... | |
 | EVERT A. DUYCKINCK, GEORGE L. DUYCKINCK - 1881
...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 we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 604 pages
...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 we stand as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven we must sail sometimes with the... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1883 - 208 pages
...real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other." TENDENCY. — " I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving." SECRETS.—" We never tell our secrets to people who jump... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885
...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 we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 608 pages
...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 we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with... | |
 | P. Garrett - 1888
...their presence, and muse or sleep, And all at once they leave you and you know them. Brotming. I find the great thing in this world is not so much where We stand as in what direction we are moving. Holmes. The path of life we walk to-day Is strange as that... | |
 | Julia B. Hoitt - 1890 - 329 pages
...of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off, and ignorance begins. I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. The flowering moments of the mind drop half their petals... | |
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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. 
