 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - Počet stránok 430
...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,...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 that is really moving... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - Počet stránok 420
...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...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 that is really moving... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1858 - Počet stránok 710
...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 we stand,...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 - Počet stránok 376
...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 - Počet stránok 588
...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...sometimes against it— but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor." Emblems. — " The ncorn," observes Nichol, " does not become an oak in a day;... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1875 - Počet stránok 444
...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...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 that is really moving... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - Počet stránok 1078
...LIVES, so LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OR SOME WAY MAKES GOOD THE FACULTIES OF HIMSELF." I find the great A O t } ] ? nor lie at anchor. There is one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind that is really movingonward,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - Počet stránok 120
...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,...sometimes against it, — 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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - Počet stránok 354
...SOME WAY MAKES GOOD THE FACULTIES OF HIMSELF.''' I find the great thing in this world is not so mucf) where we stand, as in what direction we are moving:...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. 
