"Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind."

Heart, Mankind, Tradition, World

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"Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind."

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"The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers."

Dennis Prager, American Journalist

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"So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes."

Mika Waltari, Finnish Author

Heart, Eyes, Man, Will

"I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion."

Paul Simon, American Musician

Heart, Eye, Fashion, Open

"And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

Heart, Eyes, Will

"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Heart, Charm, Tenderness

"When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it."

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian Philosopher

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"They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings."

John Ford, English Dramatist

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"Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound."

Voltaire, French Writer

Heart, Country

"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

Heart, Force, Freedom, Literature

"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."

James A. Baldwin, American Author

Heart, Purity

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"The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers."

"So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes."

"I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion."

"And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes."

"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."

"When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it."

"They are the silent griefs which cut the heart-strings."

"Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound."

"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory."

"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."

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"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving."

"To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man."

"No, sir. I make it a rule of mine: The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask."

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