Great Throughts Treasury

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Macdonald Clarke

The heart must be at rest before the mind, like a quiet lake under an unclouded summer evening, can reflect the solemn starlight and the splendid mysteries of heaven.

Heart | Heaven | Mind | Quiet | Rest | Wisdom |

Susan Coleridge

Every day is a fresh beginning, Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain, and spite of old sorrow, and older sinning, and troubles forecasted, and possible pain, take heart with the day, and begin again.

Beginning | Day | Heart | Pain | Sorrow | Soul | Troubles | Wisdom | Old |

Joseph Conrad, born Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Heart | Hope | Life | Life | Love | Man | Trust | Wisdom | Woe |

Miles Coverdale, also Myles Coverdale

A quiet heart is a continual feast.

Heart | Quiet | Wisdom |

Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens

The prejudices of men emanate from the mind, and may be overcome; the prejudices of women emanate from the heart and are impregnable.

Heart | Men | Mind | Wisdom |

Nathaniel Emmons

It is a very serious duty, perhaps of all duties the most serious, to look into one's own character and conduct, and accurately read one's own heart. It is virtually looking into eternity, and all its vast and solemn realities, which must appear delightful or awful, according as the heart appears to be conformed or not conform to God.

Character | Conduct | Duty | Eternity | God | Heart | Wisdom |

Maria Edgeworth

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

Age | Heart | Wisdom |

George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman’s heart has holier idols.

Applause | Heart | Man | Wisdom | Woman | World |

Du Coeur NULL

We may have the confidence of another without possessing his heart. If his heart be ours, there is no need of revelation or of confidence, all is open to us.

Confidence | Heart | Need | Revelation | Wisdom |

Tyron Edwards

Duty performed is a moral tonic; if neglected, the tone and strength of both mind and heart are weakened, and the spiritual health undermined.

Duty | Health | Heart | Mind | Strength | Wisdom |

Lewis L. Dunnington

Fear builds prison walls around a man and bars him in with dreads, anxieties and timid doubts. Faith is the great liberator from prison walls. Fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages, fear sickens, faith heals; fear puts hopelessness at the heart of life, while faith sees beyond the horizon and rejoices in its God.

Faith | Fear | God | Heart | Life | Life | Man | Prison | Wisdom |

George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.

Heart | Wisdom |

Henry Fielding

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Change | Circumstances | Heart | Joy | Wisdom |

Zelda Fitzgerald, born Zelda Sayre

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.

Heart | Wisdom |