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Heart Quotes

"The heart is forever making the head its fool."

"The heart is forever making the head its fool."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"The true character of ministry is a servants heart."

"The true character of ministry is a servants heart."

Harold Warner, American Author

Heart, Character

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"The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again."

"The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again."

Steve Ross, American Businessman

Heart, Church, Right, Wounds

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"She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it."

"She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it."

Georgette Heyer, British Novelist

Heart, Unhappiness

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"Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being."

"Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Heart, Being, Will

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"In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!"

"In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!"

Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese Athlete

Heart, Extreme, Mind, Unity

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"With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart."

"With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart."

Sammy Davis, Jr., American Entertainer

Heart, Friends, Ocean, Sammy Davis

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"Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred."

"Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred."

Daniel De Leon, American Activist

Heart, Progress, Ideas, Capitalism

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"My heart dances with joy and sings with passion when it hears the music of love."

"My heart dances with joy and sings with passion when it hears the music of love."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Heart, Joy, Love, Passion

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"The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making."

"The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making."

Lillian Smith, American Novelist

Heart, Hurt, Journey

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"The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image."

"The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image."

Charles W. Chesnutt, American Novelist

Heart, Despair, Mystery, Reflection

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"The human heart is deeply nuanced who can know it? Taming the heart involves trust. What do you trust in? The material world has less substance than most people realize. We are made of stuff but this stuff is something that cannot be regarded as real. In a very real sense, you are a collection of your choices."

"The human heart is deeply nuanced who can know it? Taming the heart involves trust. What do you trust in? The material world has less substance than most people realize. We are made of stuff but this stuff is something that cannot be regarded as real. In a very real sense, you are a collection of your choices."

R. A. Delmonico, American Author

Heart, Trust, Choice, Reality

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"To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart."

"To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart."

Phyllis Theroux, American Author

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"Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do."

"Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do."

Marilyn vos Savant, American Writer

Heart, Promise, Right

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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."

"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

Heart, Emotion, Reason, Doubt

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"It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched."

"It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched."

George Gissing, British Novelist

Heart, Emotions, Eyes, Mind

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"A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart."

"A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart."

Pietro Aretino, Italian Poet

Heart, Cowardice, Mind

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"Your heart is the roots to God.Your heart is nourished by truth, by God, but you have forgotten the heart.Come back to the heart, and you will be able to know the truth.You will be able to know the truth as the truth and the false as the false."

"Your heart is the roots to God.Your heart is nourished by truth, by God, but you have forgotten the heart.Come back to the heart, and you will be able to know the truth.You will be able to know the truth as the truth and the false as the false."

Swami Dhyan Giten, Swedish Spiritual Leader

Heart, Truth, Spiritual, Awakening

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"Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart."

"Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart."

Ruth Graham, American Celebrity

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"I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we're exposing you and David Beckham. My heart did not beat for a minute."

"I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we're exposing you and David Beckham. My heart did not beat for a minute."

Rebecca Loos, English Celebrity

Heart, News, Saying, World

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"Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout."

"Your heart is full of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout."

Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese Athlete

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"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling."

"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling."

William James, American Philosopher

Heart, Enemies, Feeling, Will

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"It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it."

"It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it."

Barry Switzer, American Coach

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

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

Alice Walker, American Author

5

"For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed."

"For as well as I have loved thee heretofore, mine heart will not serve now to see thee; for through thee and me is the flower of kings and knights destroyed."

Thomas Malory, English Author

Heart, Kings, Now, Will

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"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

5

"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."

"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child."

"A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

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"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

Thomas Haynes Bayly, English Writer

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"Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?"

"Then, in that hour of deliverance, my heart spoke. Does not such a country, and such defenders of their country, deserve a song?"

Francis Scott Key, American Author

Heart, Country, Song

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"The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit."

"The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit."

Thomas Malory, English Author

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"As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled."

"As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."

"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart."

"Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Heart, Memories, Mind

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"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart."

"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

Heart, Beauty, Emotion, Spirit

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"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."

"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Heart, Fear, Future, Past

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"Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head."

"Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Heart, Contempt, Hatred

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"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break."

"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless."

"I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless."

Alfred Schnittke, Russian Composer

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"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."

"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Heart, Knowledge

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"There is no instinct like that of the heart."

"There is no instinct like that of the heart."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Heart, Instinct

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"Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship."

"Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy and more dictatorship."

Peter Bichsel, Swiss Writer

Heart, Democracy, Dictatorship, Parliament

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"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

Heart, Mind, Poet, Khalil Gibran

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"The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs."

"The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs."

Voltaire, French Writer

4

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

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

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Heart, Mankind, Tradition, World

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"My heart dances with joy when I think about you."

"My heart dances with joy when I think about you."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Heart, Joy, You

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

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

Jane Austen, British Writer

Heart, Charm, Tenderness

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"My heart is aching for the people of Nice, Italy. I am so sad that I have no words to express my frustration."

"My heart is aching for the people of Nice, Italy. I am so sad that I have no words to express my frustration."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Heart, Sadness, Frustration, Nice

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

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

Ovid, Roman Poet

Heart, Misfortune

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