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"Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere; and somewhere hearts are light; And somewhere men are laughing; and little children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville- great Casey has struck out."
"It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior."
"Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart."
"It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly."
"Your vision will be clearer only when you manage to see within your heart."
"But down deep, at the molecular heart of life we're essentially identical to trees."
"The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem."
"Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart."
"I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart."
"I like to bless people and do things without the world knowing about it, because I'm not in it for the glory. I do it because it comes from my heart. As long as I keep doing that, I'm satisfied."
"Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow."
"Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary"
"At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:And as the last slow sudden drops are shedFrom sparkling eaves when all the storm has fled,So singly flagged the pulses of each heart."
"We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong."
"The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt."
"The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims."
"Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate."
"My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations."
"The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, andobedience; and as its operation is silent, and only enforces the motives of morality and justice, it is in danger of being overlooked, and confounded with these other motives."
"Awakening to who we really are is at the heart of yoga. . . .Yoga offers a path to this underlying field of being, which is the source of creativity, fulfillment, and abundance."
