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Yonkers that have hearts of oak at fourscore yeares. - Unattributed Author, Old Meg of Herefordshire A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world. - Joseph Addison, Sir Roger on the Bench The heart does not lie. - Vittorio Alfieri The heart must glow before the tongue can gild. - William R. Alger The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern. - William R. Alger Can you walk on water? You have done no better than a straw. Can you fly in the air? You have done no better than a bluebottle. Conquer you heart; then you may become somebody. - Abdullah Ansari of Herat He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow. - Philip James Bailey I have a heart with room for every joy. - Philip James Bailey, Festus (sc. A Mountain) My favoured temple is in an humble heart. - Philip James Bailey, Festus (sc. Colonnade and Lawn) There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scale the fall of an empire and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire. - Honore de Balzac My heart is as pure as the driven slush. - Tallulah Bankhead What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. - Henry Ward Beecher Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us. - Eric Berne, M.D. A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart is at his left. - Bible, Ecclesiastes (ch. X, v. 2) The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? - Bible, Jeremiah (ch. XVII, v. 9) The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I cause the widow's heart to sing for joy. - Bible, Job (ch. XXIX, v. 13) Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. - Bible, John (ch. XIV, v. 1) For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. - Bible, Matthew (ch. VI, v. 21) Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. IV, v. 23) The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XIV, v. 10) A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XV, v. 13) All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XV, v. 15) A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XVI, v. 9) For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XXIII, v. 7) He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works. - Bible, Proverbs (ch. XXXIII, v. 15) Displaying page 1 of 7 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7
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