Great Throughts Treasury

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Henry George Bohn

There is nothing can equal the tender hours when life is first in bloom, when the heart like a bee, in a wild of flowers, finds everywhere perfume; when the present is all and it questions not if those flowers shall pass away, but pleased with its own delightful lot, dreams never of decay.

Dreams | Heart | Life | Life | Nothing | Present | Wisdom |

Elizabeth Bowen, Full name Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.

Absence | Better | Heart | People | Wisdom | Think |

Thomas Brooks

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

God | Heart | Will | Wisdom | God |

Christian Nestell Bovee

The language of the heart which comes from the heart and goes to the heart - is always simple, graceful, and full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language, difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied.

Art | Harmony | Heart | Language | Power | Rhetoric | Teach | Wisdom | Art |

Nicholas-Edme Rétif or Restif, aka Rétif de la Bretonne

The heart of youth is reached through the senses; the senses of age are reached through the heart.

Age | Heart | Wisdom | Youth | Youth |

Elsie Landon Buck

The stamp of a parent's life on a child's is indelible in every phase of living. What a parent passes on to his child is, essentially, all that he himself is. And the essentials of life are found in the attitudes of heart and mind.

Heart | Life | Life | Mind | Wisdom | Child | Parent |

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering, as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us.

Heart | Love | Suffering | Wisdom |

G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Earth | Heaven | Life | Life | Object | Play | Wisdom |

John Bunyan

When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words than thy words without heart.

Heart | Wisdom | Words |

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Each things lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.

God | Heart | Love | Man | Nature | Truth | Wisdom | Intellect |

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.

Earth | Heaven | Ideas | Object | Wisdom |

Richard Cecil

I extend the circle of real religion very widely. Many men fear God, and love God, and have sincere desire to serve him, whose views of religious truth are very imperfect, and in some points utterly false. But may not many such persons have a state of heart acceptable before God?

Desire | Fear | God | Heart | Love | Men | Religion | Truth | Wisdom |