"The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart."

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"The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart."

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"Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"I think the most important thing for an artist is to not worry about what anybody else thinks. You just have to do what comes from your heart and your being and put it out there-that's true in any of the arts."

Rosanna Arquette, American Actress

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"While we tediously check our weaponry before entering into battle, do we check our hearts? For without exception, that is the greatest weapon of all."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"When mind stuck, entertain your heart."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Knock on the heart's emotions and its gates will be widely opened, but nock on reason and doubt will come charging at you."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be."

Anatole France, French Novelist

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"Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch."

Yoshida Kenko, Japanese Author

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"I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have."

Alice Walker, American Author

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"My heart is an endless well of love and gratitude."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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Explore more quotes by Alfred de Vigny

"The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch."

Character

"France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man."

History

"But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity."

Poetry

"Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?"

Thought

"Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?"

Literature

"Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever."

Art

"Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty."

Art

"What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete."

Civilization

"The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man."

God

"Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?"

Nation