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"He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger."
"I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion."
"O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart."
"For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving."
"Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief."
"You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; But yet you draw not iron, for my heart Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw, And I shall have no power to follow you."
"Threadbare his songs seem now, to lettered ken: They were worn threadbare next the hearts of men."
"She gave me eyes, she gave me ears; And humble cares, and delicate fears; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears; And love and thought and joy."
"Sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart."
"A babe, by intercourse of touch I held mute dialogues with my Mother's heart."
"The clouds that gather round the setting sun do take a sober colouring from an eye that hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, to me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."
"The earth was all before me. With a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about; and should the chosen guide Be nothing better than a wandering cloud, I cannot miss my way."
"Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!"
"The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart."
"Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame of anger against the brutal, corrupt invader ... In a dozen famous ancient States now prostrate under the Nazi yoke, the masses of the people ... await the hour of liberation ... That hour will strike, and its solemn peal will proclaim that the night is past and that the dawn has come."
"There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it"
"I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all."
"My family especially has always taught me to be myself and not let other people's opinions change me. To always believe my instincts and follow my heart."
"The heart is a very, very resilient little muscle. It really is."
"My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting."
