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Quotes about Heart


Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote.

Daniel Webster

If all hearts were open and all desires known—as they would be if people showed their souls—how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!

Thomas Hardy

Her mind lives tidily, apart From cold and noise and pain, And bolts the door against her heart, Out wailing in the rain.

Dorothy Parker

Whatever we are waiting for— peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance— it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his fellow citizens.

Gen. Henry Lee

First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.

Gen. Henry Lee

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine

Neil Armstrong

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view. . . . . The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.

Samuel Woodworth

Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story!

Amy Lowell

Those who we strive to benefit Dear to our hearts soon grow to be; I love my Rich, and I admit That they are very good to me. Succor the poor, my sisters,--I While heaven shall still vouchsafe me health Will strive to share and mollify The trials of abounding wealth.

Edward Sanford Martin

If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.

Arabian Proverb

Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

Golda Meir

A willing heart adds feather to the heel And makes the clown a winged Mercury.

Joanna Baillie

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.

W.A. Bible

The heart of the wise in in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

Francis Bible

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

William Cowper

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'… I can't fathom my own heart.

Michael Caine

Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart.

Robert Burns

Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart, And press a suit with passion, Is not a woman's part. If man come not to gather The roses where they stand, They fade among their foliage, They cannot seek his hand.

William Cullen Bryant

And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair. Wha does the utmost that he can Will whyles do mair.

Robert Burns

'Tis enough-- Who listens once will listen twice; Her heart be sure is not of ice, And one refusal no rebuff.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing, Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing; Wed or cease to woo.

Thomas Campbell

'Tis a word that's quickly spoken, Which being unrestrained, a heart is broken.

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

Francis Beaumont and John Bible

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