"A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience."
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"'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me."
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"A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way."
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"The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing."
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"For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race - and of ours - sexual intercourse!It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!"
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"Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others."
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"The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes."
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"It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head."
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"Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor"
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"We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege."
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"Acting is something I've done since I was six years old, performing for my mum and my family in the living room, and I do it because my heart's in it."
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"I'll always try to follow my heart into things I love, and modelling is not something I'm dreaming of pursuing forever."
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"the most grievous wrong of that day ... was to be found in the establishment of the celibacy of the clergy. ... This hideous doctrine of a celibate priesthood was maintained only by a constant struggle against the better and truer instincts of the heart."
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"By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also."
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"I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do. And at the end of the day, whether it works or not, I can say I tried my best."
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"Just because I don't wear my heart on my sleeve - " "You don't even wear your heart in your chest."
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"Hovering near panic, trying to focus but finding it hard to open my eyes. My heart was pounding. I couldn’t get enough air, and I couldn’t find the desire to push her away"
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"The warm dampness of her breath made me shiver at the mix of the familiar and the unknown, with a soft exhalation she shifted her head and her lips found my collarbone, teasingly shy of my old scar. Tendrils pulsed in time with my heart, building on the ones before to an unseen height."
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"Shouts of dismay rose as the red flesh splattered against the table. It was only a tomato, but one would think I was pulping a decaying heart by the noise the big, strong FIB officers were making."
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"Wait until the sun sets tonight, and if we are both here to see it, then my heart will break knowing you are safe and yet not to be mine. If you are gone, then my heart will break knowing that God has taken you home...” Gordian Pierce"
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