"A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed."
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"Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me."
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"If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away."
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"How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart."
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"The idea of infidelity [a disbelief in the inspiration of the Scriptures or the divine origin of Christianity] cannot be treated with too much resentment or too much horror. The man who can think of it with patience is a traitor in his heart and ought to be execrated [denounced] as one who adds the deepest hypocrisy to the blackest treason."
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"....success in walking is not to let your right foot know what your left foot doeth. Your heart must furnish such music that in keeping time to it your feet will carry you around the globe without knowing it."
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"The day breaks not, it is my heart."
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"Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be not unite; And now, as broken glasses show A hundred lesser faces, so My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, But after one such love, can love no more."
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"Filled with her love, may I be rather grown Mad with much heart, than idiot with none."
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"Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill."
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"My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die."
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"As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart."
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"Unlikely accomplishments are borne out of single-minded purposefulness. Future superstars don't get there by keeping part of their heart in reserve."
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"No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart permit it to take part in the complicated and increasingly sophisticated decisions that pour not only upon the President and upon the Congress, but upon all the citizens who exercise the ultimate power."
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"Don't swear in the Literal Heart of Jesus."
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"I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life - it's excruciating, you are forced to realise that your pain, the kind that makes you wake up afraid with your heart pounding, is really yours and not the result of somebody up in the sky. It's the result of your parents and your environment."
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"When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind."
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"A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness full of fools."
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"Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie."
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"Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and ruins fortunes than of that which falls impotently on the grave."
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