Lift up your hearts. [ Law ]
Necessity unites hearts. [ German Proverb ]
Hearts agree; minds dispute. [ Preault ]
Love makes all hearts gentle. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
When friends meet, hearts warm. [ Proverb ]
Hearts are stronger than swords. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Home-keeping hearts are happiest. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die. [ Thomas Campbell ]
Humble hearts have humble desires. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
However it be, it seems to me,
'Tis only noble to be good.
Kind hearts are more than coronets.
And simple faith than Norman blood. [ Tennyson ]
Hearts are oftener blind than eyes. [ Mubarrad ]
Whenever a noble deed is wrought.
Whenever is spoken a noble thought.
Our hearts, in glad surprise,
To higher levels rise. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Joy softens more hearts than tears. [ Mme. de Sartory ]
Born to excel, and to command!
As by transcendent beauty to attract
All eyes, so by pre-eminence of soul
To rule all hearts. [ Congreve ]
Paradise is open to all kind hearts. [ Beranger ]
O, weary hearts! O, slumbering eyes!
O, drooping souls whose destinies
Are fraught with fear and pain,
Ye shall be loved again! [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]
Say, what other metre is it
Than the meeting of the eyes?
Nature poureth into nature
Through the channels of that feature
Riding on the ray of sight,
Fleeter far than whirlwinds go.
Or for service, or delight,
Hearts to hearts their meaning show. [ Emerson ]
Hail mildly, pleasing solitude.
Companion of the wise and good,
But from whose holy, piercing eye,
The herds of fools and villains fly;
Oh! how I love with thee to walk,
And listen to thy whispered talk,
Which innocence and truth imparts,
And meets the most obdurate hearts. [ Thomson ]
The best hearts are ever the bravest. [ Sterne ]
Hearts only thrive on varied good;
And he who gathers from a host
Of friendly hearts his daily food,
Is the best friend that we can boast. [ Holland ]
Hearts may agree though heads differ. [ Proverb ]
For bells are the voice of the church;
They have tones that touch and search
The hearts of young and old. [ Longfellow ]
And hearts resolved and hands prepared
The blessings they enjoy to guard. [ Smollett ]
What is excellent,
As God lives, is permanent;
Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain,
Heart's love will meet thee again. [ Emerson ]
Gird your hearts with silent fortitude,
Suffering, yet hoping all things. [ Mrs. Hemans ]
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds. [ Lamartine ]
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave.
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave. [ Longfellow ]
They did not know how hate can burn
In hearts once changed from soft to stern;
Nor all the false and fatal zeal
The convert of revenge can feel. [ Byron ]
Almost all women have hearts full of pity. [ Thackeray ]
Affinity in hearts is the nearest kindred. [ Proverb ]
Rich men have often the hearts of poor men. [ Proverb ]
Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. [ C. H. Parkhurst ]
Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart! [ Du Bartas ]
Leap hearts to lips, and in our kisses meet. [ John Fletcher ]
Much danger makes great hearts most resolute. [ Marston ]
Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble. [ Spurgeon ]
Love is the art of hearts, and heart of arts. [ Bailey ]
Speak, speak, let terror strike slaves mute.
Much danger makes great hearts most resolute. [ Marston ]
Young men's love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Sc. 3 ]
Wedlock joins nothing, if it joins not hearts. [ Sheridan Knowles ]
When love once pleads admission to our hearts,
In spite of all the virtue we can boast,
The woman that deliberates is lost. [ Addison ]
Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart. [ Crabbe ]
How cling we to a thing our hearts have nursed. [ Mrs. C. H. W. Esling ]
There is ever a song somewhere, my dear,
Be the skies above or dark or fair,
There is ever a song that our hearts may hear -
There is ever a song somewhere, my dear -
There is ever a song somewhere. [ James Whitcomb Riley ]
The poor too often turn away unheard,
From hearts that shut against them with a sound
That will be heard in heaven. [ Longfellow ]
What careth she for hearts when once possessed? [ Byron ]
Solitude is the consolation of hearts betrayed.
Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads. [ Bailey ]
What day, what hour, but knocks at human hearts,
To wake the soul to sense of future scenes?
Deaths stand like Mercurys, in every way,
And kindly point us to our journey's end. [ Dr. Young ]
How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk. [ William Shakespeare ]
And where we love is home.
Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
The chain may lengthen, but it never parts. [ Holmes ]
But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought
Of freedom, in that hope itself possess
All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength,
The scorn of danger, and united hearts,
The surest presage of the good they seek. [ Cowper ]
Sweet is the smile of home; the mutual look,
When hearts are of each other sure;
Sweet all the joys that crowd the household nook,
The haunt of all affections pure. [ Cowper ]
How dear is our native land to all noble hearts ! [ Voltaire ]
If wrong our hearts, our heads are right in vain. [ Young ]
Human hearts should be temples where angels dwell. [ T. L. Harris ]
Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one
Have limits to its mercy; God has none. [ A. A. Procter ]
There is a strength
Deep-bedded in our hearts, of which we reck
But little, till the shafts of heaven have pierced
Its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent
Before her gems are found? [ Mrs. Hemans ]
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel with smile or frown;
With that wild wheel we go not up or down;
Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse. [ Halen ]
Sure there is none but fears a future state;
And when the most obdurate swear they do not.
Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues. [ Dryden ]
He teaches best.
Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast,
And knows their strength or weakness through his own. [ Bayard Taylor ]
Trust not the treason of those smiling looks.
Until ye have their guileful trains well tried;
For they are like but unto golden hooks.
That from the foolish fish their baits do hide:
So she with flattering smiles weak hearts doth guide
Unto her love, and tempt to their decay;
Whom, being caught, she kills with cruel pride,
And feeds at pleasure on the wretched prey. [ Spenser ]
God speaks to our hearts through the voice of remorse. [ De Bernis ]
All who know their own minds know not their own hearts. [ Rochefoucauld ]
It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men. [ Sheridan ]
Hearts with equal love combined kindle never-dying fires. [ Carew ]
Light visits the hearts, as it does the eyes, of all living. [ Carlyle ]
Ours is the age of thought; hearts are stronger than swords. [ Wendell Phillips ]
It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn love. [ Ricard ]
There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits. [ B. R. Haydon ]
We can't afford to be morbid. We have to have cheerful hearts. [ H. E. Rives ]
It is chance that makes brothers, but hearts that make friends.
Oh, let us fill our hearts up with the glory of the day
And banish every doubt and care and sorrow far away!
For the world is full of roses and the roses full of dew,
And the dew is full of heavenly love that drips for me and you.
[ James Whitcomb Riley ]
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts. [ Voltaire ]
Few hearts that are not double, few tongues that are not cloven. [ Proverb ]
When hearts hold converse, other parts of the body are in repose. [ Al-Misri ]
We bachelors grin, but you marred men laugh till your hearts ache. [ Proverb ]
Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears. [ Joseph Roux ]
Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good. [ Michelet ]
Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of little children. [ Thackeray ]
Undipped people may be as good as dipped, if their hearts are clean. [ Ruskin's rendering of the faith of St. Martin ]
While our hearts are pure, our lives are happy and our peace is sure. [ William Winter ]
Lovers complain of their hearts, but the distemper is in their heads. [ Proverb ]
Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood. [ Tennyson ]
Why must we first weep before we can love so deep that our hearts ache. [ Richter ]
The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find, lies through their mouths. [ Dr. John Wolcott ]
Half the ills we hoard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them. [ Barry Cornwall ]
Love, that sometimes corrupts pure bodies, often purifies corrupt hearts. [ Latena ]
It is not the victory that makes the joy of noble hearts, but the combat. [ Montalembert ]
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. [ Bible ]
The more women look into their glass, the less they look into their hearts. [ Proverb ]
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders, [ Bovee ]
So let them ease their hearts with prate of equal rights, which man never knew. [ Byron ]
Those who want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts. [ Bacon ]
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it. [ Bovee ]
It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own. [ Kousseau ]
The good die first; and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust burn to the socket. [ Wordsworth ]
There is work on God's wide earth for all men that he has made with hands and hearts. [ Carlyle ]
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of water. [ Rivarol ]
Your tongues and your words are steeped in honey, but your hearts in gall and vinegar. [ Plaut ]
With such deceits he gained their easy hearts, too prone to credit his perfidious arts. [ Dryden ]
Oh, poor hearts of poets, eager for the infinite in love, will you never be understood. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts. [ Fielding ]
Eloquence dwells quite as much in the hearts of the hearers as on the lips of the orator. [ Lamartine ]
He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. [ Ward Beecher ]
We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by the qualities we possess. [ Suard ]
God be thanked that there are some in the world to whose hearts the barnacles will not cling. [ J. G. Holland ]
Thou true magnetic pole, to which all hearts point duly north, like trembling needles! (Gold) [ Byron ]
We tell our triumphs to the crowd, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. [ Bulwer Lytton ]
The hearts of men are their books, events are their tutors, great actions are their eloquence. [ Macaulay ]
Some people's hearts are shrunk in them, like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance. [ Dewey ]
If all hearts were frank, just, and honest, the major part of the virtues would be useless to us. [ Moliere ]
Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and hardens clay, expands great souls and contracts bad hearts. [ Rivarol ]
Remembrance of the dead soon fades. Alas! in their tombs, they decay more slowly than in our hearts. [ Victor Hugo ]
Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden. [ Shenstone ]
This iron world brings down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate. [ Spenser ]
Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it. [ Bishop Hall ]
We have sometimes loved so much that there is nothing left in our hearts that enables us to love again. [ Rochebrune ]
In the silent night, weary mortals lull to rest their cares, and their hearts become forgetful of toil. [ Virgil ]
He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
Hypocrites are wicked: they hide their defects with so much care, that their hearts are poisoned by them. [ Marguerite de Valais ]
A man philosophizes better than a woman on the human heart, but she reads the hearts of men better than he. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
In human hearts what bolder thoughts can rise than man's presumption on tomorrows' dawn? Where is tomorrow? [ Young ]
It is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Hearts may be attracted by assumed qualities, but the affections are only to be fixed by those that are real. [ De Moy ]
Nature often enshrines gallant and noble hearts in weak bosoms - oftenest. God bless her! - in female breasts. [ Dickens ]
The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us. [ Gutzkow ]
The years write their records on men's hearts as they do on trees: inner circles of growth which no eye can see. [ Saxe Holm ]
Hearts may be attracted by assumed qualities, but the affections are not to be fixed but by those which are real. [ De Moy ]
The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker. [ Theodore Parker ]
Esteem has more engaging charms than friendship, and even love. It captivates hearts better, and never makes ingrates. [ Rochefoucauld ]
We all have in our hearts a secret place where we keep, free from the contact of the world, our sweetest remembrances. [ De Finod ]
Why go I into details? we have nothing that is not perishable, except what our hearts and our intellects endow us with. [ Ovid ]
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. [ Washington Irving ]
The study of books is a languishing and feeble motion that hearts not, whereas conversation teaches and exercises at once. [ Montaigne ]
If a book come from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and authorcraft are of small amount to that. [ Carlyle ]
The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us. [ Lowell ]
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can, and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. [ Lamartine ]
One of the most effectual ways of pleasing and of making one's self loved is to be cheerful: joy softens more hearts than tears. [ Mme. de Sartory ]
The apparently irreconcilable dissimilarity between our wishes and our means, between our hearts and this world, remains a riddle. [ Richter ]
The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side. [ John Boyle O'Reilly ]
Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but toot into our affections. [ Charron ]
Some books we should keep in our hands, and on our hearts; the best way we could dispose of others would be, to throw them in the fire. [ Acton ]
A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again. [ Joseph Roux ]
Paradise is open to all kind hearts. God welcomes whoever has dried tears, either under the crown of the martyrs, or under wreaths of flowers. [ Beranger ]
There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no hearts. [ Beaconsfield ]
Sweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts. [ Percival ]
Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts. [ Zimmermann ]
The only sovereign remedy is to give Christ the pre-eminence in our hearts; for then we shall undervalue all temporal things in comparison of Him. [ Fisher's Catechism ]
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. [ Ward Beecher ]
Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts; the difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together. [ A. W. Hare ]
Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep. [ Goethe ]
Women speak easily of platonic love; but, while they appear to esteem it highly, there is not a single ribbon of their toilette that does not drive platonism from our hearts. [ A. Ricard ]
Ponder the lives of the glorious in art; or literature through all ages. What are they but records of toils and sacrifices, supported by the earnest hearts of their votaries? [ Henry T. Tuckerman ]
In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that ever was or ever will be of godlike in this world, - the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men. [ Carlyle ]
Women always show more taste in adorning others than themselves; and the reason is that their persons are like their hearts - they read another's better that they can their own. [ Richter ]
He has verily touched our hearts as with a live coal from the altar who in any way brings home to our heart the noble doings, feelings, darings, and endurances of a brother man. [ Carlyle ]
We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity, than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect. [ Jane Porter ]
Men, as well as women, are oftener led by their hearts than their understandings. The way to the heart is through the senses; please their eyes and ears, and the work is half done. [ Chesterfield ]
Amiable people, while they are more liable to imposition in casual contact with the world, yet radiate so much of mental sunshine that they are reflected in all appreciative hearts. [ Madame Deluzy ]
There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found? [ Mrs. Hemans ]
Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions. [ Colton ]
Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we have palpable proof; and even then we should not expose them to others. [ Colton ]
The truly great and good in affliction bear a countenance more princely than they are wont, for it is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened. [ S. P. Sidney ]
People seem to think themselves in some ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about them. And yet it is not the devil for certain who puts pity into their hearts. [ Anne Isabella Thackeray ]
If your name is to live at all, it is so much more to have it live in people's hearts than only in their brains. I don't know that one's eyes fill with tears when he thinks of the famous inventor of logarithms. [ Holmes ]
True, the poisonous breath of the world destroys our illusions, but they resuscitate at once when a ray of love falls upon our benumbed hearts, as the warmth of the sun revives the poor flowers withered by the ices of winter. [ De Finod ]
Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what generosity there is in wine steadily refuses to impart its glow to their shriveled hearts. [ Whipple ]
But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age. [ Beecher ]
To be left alone in the wide world with scarcely a friend, - this makes the sadness which, striking its pang into the minds of the young and the affectionate, teaches them too soon to watch and interpret the spirit-signs of their own hearts. [ Hawthorne ]
No unity can last, in married life, unless the fellowship of hearts is accompanied by the fellowship of minds. As a woman loses the charms of her youth, her husband must perceive that her mind is developing, and love must be perpetuated by esteem. [ Dupanloup ]
Why does the evening, does the night, put warmer love in our hearts? Is it the nightly pressure of helplessness? or is it the exalting separation from the turmoils of life - that veiling of the world in which for the soul nothing then remains but souls? [ Richter ]
Death is the tyrant of the imagination. His reign is in solitude and darkness, in tombs and prisons, over weak hearts and seething brains. He lives, without shape or sound, a phantasm, inaccessible to sight or touch - a ghastly and terrible apprehension. [ Barry Cornwall ]
There is to me a daintiness about early flowers that touches me like poetry; they blow out with such a simple loveliness among the common herbs of pastures, and breathe their lives so unobstrusively, like hearts whose beatings are too gentle for the world. [ N. P. Willis ]
A man takes contradiction and advice much more easily than people think, only he will not bear it when violently given, even though it be well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain. [ Richter ]
What is the world, or its opinion, to him who has studied in the lives of men the mysteries of their egotism and perfidy! He knows that the best and most generous hearts are often forced to tread the thorny paths, where insults and outrages are heaped upon them! [ George Sand ]
There is dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens its cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself and the drop runs off. So God rains goodness and mercy as wide as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we do not open our hearts to receive them. [ Aughey ]
Why doth Fate, that often bestows thousands of souls on a conqueror or tyrant, to be the sport of his passions, so often deny to the tenderest and most feeling hearts one kindred one on which to lavish their affections? Why is it that Love must so often sigh in vain for an object, and Hate never? [ Richter ]
If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we stand a chance of hitting their hearts as well as their heads. In addressing angels, we could hardly raise our eloquence too high; but we must remember that men are not angels. [ Colton ]
Friendship is one of the greatest boons God can bestow on man. It is a union of our finest feelings; an uninteresting binding of hearts, and a sympathy between two souls. It is an indefinable trust we repose in one another, a constant communication between two minds, and an unremitting anxiety for each other's souls. [ J. Hill ]
Surely you will not calculate any essential difference from mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over brackish depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace. You know that the bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and how many blithe hearts dance under coarse wool! [ Chapin ]
There is still a real magic in the action and reaction of minds on one another. The casual deliration of a few becomes, by this mysterious reverberation, the frenzy of many; men lose the use, not only of their understandings, but of their bodily senses; while the most obdurate unbelieving hearts melt like the rest in the furnace where all are cast as victims and as fuel. [ Carlyle ]
For ages the world has been waiting and watching; millions, with broken hearts, have hovered around the yawning abyss; but no echo has come back from the engulfing gloom - silence, oblivion, covers all. If indeed they survive; if they went away whole and victorious, they give us no signals. We wait for years, but no messages come from the far-away shore to which they have gone. [ Bishop R. S. Foster ]
When the dusk of evening had come on, and not a sound disturbed the sacred stillness of the place, - when the bright moon poured in her light on tomb and monument, on pillar, wall, and arch, and most of all (it seemed to them) upon her quiet grave, - in that calm time, when all outward things and inward thoughts teem with assurances of immortality, and worldly hopes and fears are humbled in the dust before them, - then, with tranquil and submissive hearts they turned away, and left the child with God. [ Dickens ]
I put myself, my experiences, my observations, my heart and soul into my work. I press my soul upon the white paper. The writer who does this may have any style, he or she will find the hearts of their readers. Writing a book involves, not a waste, but a great expenditure of vital force. Yet I can assure you I have written the last lines of most of my stories with tears. The characters of my own creation had become dear to me. I could not bear to bid them good-bye and send them away from me into the wide world. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]
When we turn away from some duty or some fellow-creature, saying that our hearts are too sick and sore with some great yearning of our own, we may often sever the line on which a Divine message was coming to us. We shut out the man, and we shut out the angel who had sent him on to open the door . . . There is a plan working in our lives; and if we keep our hearts quiet and our eyes open, it all works together;
and, if we don't, it all fights together, and goes on fighting till it comes right, somehow, somewhere. [ Annie Keary ]