"Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit."
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"Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness"
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"And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking into these cinders for some spark, however tiny, to fan it into a flame so as to warm his chilled blood by it and revive in it all that he held so dear before, all that touched his heart, that made his blood course through his veins, that drew tears from his eyes, and that so splendidly deceived him!"
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"At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore."
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"Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you."
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"It was in my heart to help a little because I was helped much."
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"You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves."
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"For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart."
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"And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips."
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"I ask for nothing. / In return I give All. / There is no earning my Love. / No work needed, no effort / Save to listen to what is already heard, / To see what is already seen. / To know what is already known. / Do I seem to ask too little? / Would you give although I ask not? / Then this you can give me and I will accept. / I will take your heart. / You will find it waiting for you / When you return."
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"If you touch the hearts of people you can get people's minds to change, but you have to show them the beauty of not aborting a life."
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"Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it."
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"One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color."
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"To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle."
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"It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire."
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"She wished such words unsaid with all her heart"
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"I've learned that if you want people to join in any kind of conservation effort, you have to help them to care with their hearts, not just their heads."
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"Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they."
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"It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own. [Fr., C'est toujours un mauvais moyen de lire dans le coeur des autres que d'affecter de cacher le sien.]"
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"The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man."
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