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"I have an unshakable belief that mankind's higher nature is on the whole still dormant. The greatest souls reveal excellencies of mind and heart which their lesser fellows possess-hidden, it is true, but there all the same."
"What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?"
"Who hath no head, needes no heart."
"Not a long day, but a good heart rids worke."
"Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man."
"We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake."
"Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart could have recovered greenness?"
"A good heart cannot lye"
"Love makes all hard hearts gentle."
"Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie."
"Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, With faith, with hope, with charity, That I may run, rise, rest with Thee."
"God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage."
"A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant rears, Made of a heart, and cemented with tears."
"A small heart hath small desires."
"Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts."
"If you open up your heart You will know what I mean We've been polluted so long But here's a way for you to get clean By chanting the names of the Lord and you'll be free The Lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see."
"I don't want to be like you. I look for the pure of heart, and the ones that have made a start."
"The hearts letter is read in the eyes."
"And if you should survive to 105 Look at all you'll derive out of being alive. Then here is the best part You have a head start If you are among the very young at heart."
"The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He frivols through the livelong day, He knows not Poverty, her pinch. His lot seems light, his heart seems gay; He has a cinch. Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, Though I must slave for livelihood- Think you that I would change with him? You bet I would!"
