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Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
US poet (1807 - 1882)

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

C. S. Lewis
English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963)

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

Robert Bloch
US horror & science fiction author (1917 - 1994)

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

Virginia Woolf
English novelist (1882 - 1941)

When I was one-and-twenty,
I heard a wise man say,
Give pounds and crowns and guineas,
But not your heart away."

Give pearls away and rubies,
But keep your fancy free."
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.

A.E. Houseman

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
US poet (1807 - 1882)

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Blaise Pascal
French mathematician, physicist (1623 - 1662)

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.

Marguerite de Valois

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.

Lawrence Bixby

My heart is pure as the driven slush.

Tallulah Bankhead
US movie actress (1903 - 1968)

The wicked at heart probably know something.

Woody Allen, "Without Feathers"
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.

Hasidic Saying

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Jules Renard
(1864 - 1910)

What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Jim Beggs

The Pig, if I am not mistaken,
Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon.
Let others say his heart is big,
I think it stupid of the Pig.

Ogden Nash, "The Pig"
US humorist & poet (1902 - 1971)

...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from "Love in the Time of Cholera"

A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.

Werner Heisenberg, Philosophical Problems of Nuclear Science, New York: Fawcett 1966, p.13

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.

Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Homer, The Iliad
Greek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC)

May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.

Homer, The Odyssey
Greek epic poet (800 BC - 700 BC)

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