Quotes about heart
heart green tongue
The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive. Johannes Tauler
heart men years
If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.
heart silence looks
In prayerful silence you must look into your own heart. No one can tell you better than yourself what comes between you and God. Ask yourself. Then listen!
heart branches kind
There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. This kind of dissimulation...is a necessary branch of wisdom, and so far from being immoral...that it is a duty and a virtue. John Adams
heart patriotic men
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
heart feet charity
Heart of my heart, were it more, More would be laid at your feet. James Joyce
heart size littles
(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop.
heart deals
Deal with him, Hemingway!
heart blood broken
Broken heart. A pump after all, pumping thousands of gallons of blood every day. One fine day it gets bunged up and there you are... Old rusty pumps: damn the thing else. The resurrection and the life. Once you are dead you are dead.
heart sick chaos
He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.
heart calm my-heart
My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.
heart dark tyrants
Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.
heart dublin dies
When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.
heart honor way
Often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave. James Rollins
heart thinking use
Suppose you had to remember to beat your heart, contract in exact sequence the muscles you use for every step. ... Conservatism comes out of the body, the sense of many things being done for us that any attempt to re-think, or even make conscious, would fatally disrupt. James Richardson
heart blue sky
Tis easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue-- 'Tis the natural way of living. James Russell Lowell
heart pity
His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.
heart anxiety curtains
Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.
heart soul genius
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.
heart past history
Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.
heart suffering woe
Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.
heart musical strings
The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.
heart forget-everything childhood
It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon.
heart errors balance
God does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us an ounce is an ounce, and a pound a pound. God's measure is the heart of the offender,--a balance which varies with every one of us, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.
heart brain easy
The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.
heart issues
Michael Tomlinson's music truly explores the issues of the heart. James Redfield
heart passion iron
I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon? Laurence Sterne
heart ill-will wind
There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill-will: a word--a look, which at one time would make no impression, at another time wounds the heart, and, like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force, would scarce have reached the object aimed at.
heart men hypocrisy
Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.
heart injury goodness
Injuries come only from the heart.
heart men hypocrisy
Look into the world--how often do you behold a sordid wretch, whose straight heart is open to no man's affliction, taking shelterbehind an appearance of piety, and putting on the garb of religion, which none but the merciful and compassionate have a title to wear.
heart adventure eye
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in every thing, and who, having eyes to see, what time and chance are perpetually holding out to him as he journeyeth on his way, misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on.
heart loss men
If there is an evil in this world, it is sorrow and heaviness of heart. The loss of goods, of health, of coronets and mitres, is only evil as they occasion sorrow; take that out, the rest is fancy, and dwelleth only in the head of man.