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Quotes about Heart


It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Lee Haney

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Lee Haney

The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Amy Lowell

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

Frederika Bremer

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

What question can be here? Your own true heart Must needs advise you of the only part: That may be claim'd again which was but lent, And should be yielded with no discontent, Nor surely can we find herein a wrong, That it was left us to enjoy it long.

Archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench

The sea returning day by day Restores the world-wide mart. So let each dweller on the Bay Fold Boston in his heart Till these echoes be choked with snows Or over the town blue ocean flows.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A boy is a magical creature--you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart.

Allan Beck

I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.

Thomas Campbell Clark

Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy! Float near me; do not yet depart! Dead times revive in thee: Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art! A solemn image to my heart.

William Wordsworth

With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.

William Cowper

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia)

What female heart can gold despise? What cat's averse to fish?

Thomas Gray

The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.

Ernest Menaul

O dearest soul, your cause doth strike my heart With pity that doth make me sick.

William Shakespeare

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that ;their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.

William P. Guizot

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.

William Penn

What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony?

William Shakespeare

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstacy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. -I. Krishnamurti.

I. Krishnamurti

The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart. . -John Welwood.

John Welwood

Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things.

Henry Ward Beecher

So well she acted all and every part By turns--with that vivacious versatility, Which many people take for want of heart. They err--'tis merely what is call'd mobility, A thing of temperament and not of art, Though seeming so, from its supposed facility; And false--though true; for surely they're sincerest Who are strongly acted on by what is nearest.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

Joseph Addison

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