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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. "
The Unitarian - Side 6
redigeret af - 1897
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The Holmes Birthday Book

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1889 - 482 sider
...Edmund Burke, 1719; Maria Edgeworth, 1767 ; Arthur Hugh Clough, 1819. JANUARY 2. Philip Freneau, 1752. I find the great thing in this world is, not so much...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,...
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Selections from the Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Arr. Under the Days ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1889 - 124 sider
...its wild blood makes it hard to tram. THE PEOFESSOE AT THE BEEAKFAST-TAELE. . 19. Copernicus, 1473. I find the great thing in this world is, not so much...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...
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Typographical Journal, Bind 48

1916 - 1116 sider
...fellow apprentices, I shall feel well compensated for my trouble. Boston, Mass. JOSEPH AP EVANGKLISTA. THE great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what directiqn we are moving. — Ex. MEN are guided less by conscience than by glory, and yet the shortest...
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Letters to Living Authors

John Alexander Steuart - 1890 - 322 sider
...It could hardly be better put. There is something there beyond the reach of most humorists. Again, ' I find the great thing in this world is not so much...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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The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes: The autocrat of the breakfast-table

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 350 sider
...EVERY MAN TRULY 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...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 onward. It is...
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, Bind 1

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 268 sider
...EVERY MAX TRULY 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...sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. There is one very sad thing in old friendships,...
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The autocrat of the breakfast-table, with illustr. by H.M. Brock

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 362 sider
...EVERY MAN TRULY 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...as in what direction we are moving : To reach the porte of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, — but we must sail,...
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St. Nicholas: Scribner's Illustrated Magazine for Girls and Boys, Bind 18,Del 2

Mary Mapes Dodge - 1891 - 602 sider
...well worth considering from the Deacon's Scrap-book : " I FIND," says Oliver Wendell Holmes, " that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving." THE LETTER BOX. EDITORIAL NOTE. THOSE of our readers who are interested in Mr. Fraser's description...
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More Borrowings

Oakland (Calif.). First Unitarian Church. Ladies - 1891 - 108 sider
...sense, in an uncommon degree, is what the world calls wisdom. —Coleridge. The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. —Holmes. What an antiseptic is a pure life ! —Lowell. It is good to be children sometimes, and...
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Documents Accompanying the Journal of the House, Del 3

Michigan. Legislature - 1891 - 1080 sider
...school term has decreased three days on an average for each district. We are told that the question is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. Another item is the number of pupils who are availing themselves of the opportunities of school. We...
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