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.

Philip James Bailey (1816-1902) English poet, lawyer

Festus, Sc. “A Country Town – Market-place – Noon” [Festus] (1839)
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Often misattributed to Aristotle.