"If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?"

Heart, Harm, Order

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"If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?"

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Voltaire, French Writer

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"The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"Now mine eyes see the heart that once we did search for, and I fear this heart shall be mended, nevermore."

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"The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs."

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"What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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R. A. Delmonico, American Author

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