"Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart."
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"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!"
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"What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say"
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"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break."
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"Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave."
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"Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart."
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"To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished."
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"Weep I cannot; But my heart bleeds."
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"With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart of generosity, And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon, Shouting their emulation."
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"The heart wants what it wants. There's no logic to these things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that's that."
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"I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area it occupied turned into a public garden, in pursuance of the slum-clearance scheme."
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"Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered."
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"Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied."
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"Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, 'Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.'"
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"Our heart always transcends us."
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"If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The beauty and cogency of the preamble, reaching back to remotest antiquity and forward so an indefinite future, have lifted the hearts of millions of men and will continue to do. . . . These words are more revolutionary than anything written by Robespierre, Marx, or Lenin, more explosive than the atom, a continual challenge to ourselves as well as an inspiration to the oppressed of all the world."
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"A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds."
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"My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got."
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"The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart."
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"The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right."
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