 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 - 1891
...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...one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind which is really moving onward. It is this : that one cannot help using his early friends as the seaman... | |
 | Martha S. Hussey - 1891 - 126 pages
...'Tis only noble to be good ; Kind hearts are more than coronets. And simple faith than Norman blood. against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. 4 To claim the Arctic came the sun With banners of the burning zone, Unrolled upon their airy spars.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892
...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...one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind which is really moving onward. It is this : that one cannot help using liis early friends as the seaman... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892
...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...one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind which is really moving onward. It is this : that one cannot help using his early friends as the seaman... | |
 | William Benton Chamberlain - 1892 - 364 pages
...double, or triple bars, as above described. I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving; to reach...we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.— Holmes. There is a perenj1ial nobleness, and even sacredness in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful... | |
 | American Institute of Homeopathy - 1892
...the greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes...but we must sail and not drift nor lie at anchor." — Oliver Wendell Holmes. DISCUSSION. GW WINTEEBURN, MD : I have listened to Dr. Nottingham's paper... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1893
...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...one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind which is really moving onward. It is this : that one cannot help using his early friends as the seaman... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1894 - 205 pages
...their petals in our speech. To MY EEADEES. I <md 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 AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TAELE. JANUARY 4. Grandmother's mother : her age I guess, Thirteen summers,... | |
 | 1898
...great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving . ... we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes...but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor." ANNA LEMIRA MOOKE. MADISON, Wis. LEONID METEOHS OF 1898. Trusting that the readers of THE INLAND EDUCATOR... | |
 | 1898
...great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving . ... we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes...but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor." ANNA LEMIRA MOORE. MADISON, Wis. LEONID METEORS OP 1898. Trusting that the readers of THE INLAND EDUCATOR... | |
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