 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 Autocrat of the breakfast table - Page 99by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 373 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 242 pages
...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...sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, or lie at anchor. There is one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind that is really moving... | |
 | E S. P - 1874 - 588 pages
...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... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - 1078 pages
...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...thing in old friendships, to every mind that is really movingonward, it is this: that one cannot help using his early friends as the seaman uses the log,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 120 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 640 pages
...MAKES GOOD THE FACULTIES OF HIMSELF." I find the greart thing in this world is, not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. To reach...sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, or lie at anchor. There is one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind that is really moving... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pages
...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...but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. It has come to you over a... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1889 - 482 pages
...1819. JANUARY 2. Philip Freneau, 1752. I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach...but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. THE AUTOCEAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TAELH. JANUARY 4. Grandmother's mother : her age I guess, Thirteen summers,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1889 - 124 pages
...BEEAKFAST-TAELE. . 19. Copernicus, 1473. I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach...but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. THE AUTOCEAT OF THE BEKAKF AST-TAELE. 20. David Garrick, 1716. What were our life, with all its rents... | |
 | John Alexander Steuart - 1890 - 322 pages
...the reach of most humorists. Again, ' I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach...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... | |
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