Quotes
Quotes about Heart
O woman-country!wooed not wed,
Loved all the more by earth's male-lands,
Laid to their hearts instead.
Only I discern
Infinite passion, and the pain
Of finite hearts that yearn.
"With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart"once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he!
Yes! but there's something greater
That speaks to the heart alone:
'T is the voice of the great Creator
Dwells in that mighty tone.
O majesty unspeakable and dread!
Wert thou less mighty than Thou art,
Thou wert, O Lord, too great for our belief,
Too little for our heart.
I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty.
Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?
Toil on, poor heart, unceasingly;
And thou shalt find thy dream to be
A truth and noonday light to thee.
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.
She with one breath attunes the spheres,
And also my poor human heart.
For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart,
And makes his pulses fly,
To catch the thrill of a happy voice
And the light of a pleasant eye.
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start
When memory plays an old tune on the heart!
No: by the names inscribed in History's page,
Names that are England's noblest heritage,
Names that shall live for yet unnumbered years
Shrined in our hearts with Cressy and Poictiers;
Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility.
God give us men. The time demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and willing hands;
Men whom the lust of office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honor; men who will not lie;
Men who can stand before a demagogue
And dam his treacherous flatteries without winking;
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog
In public duty and in private thinking.
To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.
Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart.
urance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.
One day with life and heart
Is more than time enough to find a world.
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it;
We are happy now because God wills it.
His heart kep' goin' pity-pat,
But hern went pity-Zekle.
Soft-heartedness, in times like these,
Shows sof'ness in the upper story.
There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
In this broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
Nestles the seed perfection.
I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the Battle of Life,--
The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died overwhelmed in the strife....
The hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart,
Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part.
He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.
A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness of fools.
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head and the heart go together.
