 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pages
...if I can do it, as well as giving you some of my serious thoughts, and perhaps ray sadder fancies. 1 know nothing in English or any other literature more...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... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1858 - 710 pages
...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 - 1870 - 242 pages
...you, if I can do it, as well as giving you some of my serious thoughts, and perhaps my sadder fancies. I know nothing in English or any other literature...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 pages
...other literature more admirable than that sentiment of Sir Thomas Browne : " EVERY MANY TRULY LIVES, 80 LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OR SOME WAY MAKES GOOD...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,—... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1883 - 264 pages
...Every 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 tor them." FAME. — " Fame usually comes... | |
 | Hugh Reginald Haweis - 1883 - 234 pages
...Every 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 for them." PRAISE. — "You may set it... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1883 - 434 pages
...Browne : " EVERT MAN TRULY LIVES, so LONG AS HE ACTS HIS NATURE, OR SOME WAT MAKES GOOD THE FACULTIES OP 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... | |
 | 1884 - 444 pages
...family record, the above being in relief. The following is countersunk : " I find the great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving." The cane is a marvel of hand-carving, every portion of which was done with a "jack-knife," and represents... | |
 | Wisconsin Farmers' Institutes - 1901 - 330 pages
...argument against progress. Bear in mind Oliver Wendell Holmes' words, "The great thing in the word Is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving." DISCUSSION. Question — Would you advise washing the dishes after every meal or would you pile them... | |
 | Julia B. Hoitt - 1890 - 426 pages
...best part 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 in our speech. Wisdom is the abstract of the... | |
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