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"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 lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. Life 's but a means unto an end; that end Beginning, mean, and end to all things,--God."
Philip James Bailey / Festus. Scene, A Country Town.
Festus. Scene, A Country Town.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain