| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 430 páginas
...SOME WAY 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:...but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. There is one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind that is really moving onward. It is this... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 páginas
...MAKES GOOD THE FACULTIES OF 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...but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. There is one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind that is really moving onward. It is this:... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 242 páginas
...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... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 376 páginas
...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,— but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. There is one very sad thing in old friendships, to every mind that is really moving onward. It is this... | |
| E S. P - 1874 - 588 páginas
...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... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 120 páginas
...SOME WAY 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:...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... | |
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