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1 " We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best. "
― Philip James Bailey ,
2 " We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best. "
3 " Imagination is the air of mind. "
― Philip James Bailey
4 " It matters not how long we live but how. "
― Philip James Bailey , The Mystic and Other Poems
5 " Say gray-beards what they please, The heart of age is like an emptied wine-cup; Its life lies in a heel-tap: how can age judge? ’Twere a waste of time to ask how they wasted theirs; But while the blood is bright, breath sweet, skin smooth, And limbs all made to minister delight; Ere yet we have shed our locks, like trees their leaves, And we stand staring bare into the air; He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. "
6 " We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;In feelings, not in figures on a dial.We should count time by heart-throbs. He most livesWho thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest:Lives in one hour more than in years do some. "
7 " 1} "The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it."2} "Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses."3} Worthy books Are not companions--they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.4)Evil and good are God's right hand and left. "