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I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing.
Charlotte BronteRead
But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts
Woodrow WilsonRead
She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.
Victor HugoRead
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
William GoldingRead
If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You’ll halt the clock That syncopates our love.
Sylvia PlathRead
The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.
Oscar WildeRead
Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.
Mother TeresaRead
Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?
Robert FrostRead
He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking it.
Nathanael WestRead
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.
Naguib MahfouzRead
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Victor HugoRead
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
Victor HugoRead
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
Sidney HookRead
A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.
Norman Vincent PealeRead
I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.
Anais NinRead
When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.
Pierre Choderlos De LaclosRead
Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.
George EliotRead
The very instant I saw you, did My heart fly to your service; there resides To make me slave to it. ...mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want.
William ShakespeareRead
If at large gatherings or parties, or around people with whom you feel distant, your hands sometimes hang awkwardly at the ends of your arms - i you find yourself at a loss for what do with them, overcome with sadness that comes when you recognize the foreignnes of your own body - it's because your hands remember a time when the division between mind and body, brain and heart, what's inside and what's outside, was so much less.
Nicole KraussRead
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.
John DonneRead
We do not play on Graves— Because there isn't Room— Besides—it isn't even—it slants And People come— And put a Flower on it— And hang their faces so— We're fearing that their Hearts will drop— And crush our pretty play— And so we move as far As Enemies—away— Just looking round to see how far It is—Occasionally—
Emily DickinsonRead

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