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“A light heart lives long.” William Shakespeare, “Love's Labour's Lost” - 1598

“The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.” William Butler Yeats, “Ephemera” - 1889

“True beauty after all consists in purity of heart.” Mahatma Gandhi, “The Story of my Experiments with Truth” - 1929

“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will break;” William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew” - 1623

“Ah me, how weak a thing the heart of woman is!” William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar” - 1623

“My heart suspects more than mine eye can see.” William Shakespeare, “Titus Andronicus” - 1594

“I am not religious, I reckon. But peace is my heart: I know it is.” William Faulkner, “As I Lay Dying” - 1930

“Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” Albert Einstein, “The world as I see it” - 1949

“Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.” Maya Angelou, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” - 1969

“I may be poor at reading and writing, but when it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich.” Muhammad Ali, “The Soul of a Butterfly” - 2004

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man.” Aristotle, “Politics”

“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.” L. Frank Baum, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” - 1900

“I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “The Sorrows of Young Werther” - 1774

“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.” Honoré de Balzac, “Father Goriot” - 1835

“Of happiness the chiefest part is a wise heart: And to defraud the gods in aught with peril's fraught.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“The tears come from the heart and not from the brain.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply.” Neil Gaiman, “American Gods” - 2001

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.” Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” - 1984

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince” - 1943

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “Crime and Punishment” - 1867

“Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” - 1623

“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.” Jane Austen, “Sense and Sensibility” - 1811

“Hearts live by being wounded.” Oscar Wilde, “A Woman of No Importance” - 1893

“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart” Jane Austen, “Emma” - 1815

“the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.” Helen Keller, “The Story of My Life” - 1903

“'What happens when people open their hearts?' . . . 'They get better'” Haruki Murakami, “Norwegian Wood” - 1987

“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” - 1925

“What does the brain matter . . . compared with the heart?” Virginia Woolf, “Mrs Dalloway” - 1925

“His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Return of the King” - 1955

“lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another” Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” - 1845

“The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason. It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. But I think that the most...” Dr. Seuss, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” - 1957

“A fool with a heart and no brains is just as unhappy as a fool with brains and no heart.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Idiot” - 1874

“Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants, willing to be dethroned.” James Joyce, “Ulysses” - 1922

“Every heart has its own skeletons” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.” Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Menagerie” - 1944

“And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.” William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar” - 1623

“I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.” William Shakespeare, “Much Ado About Nothing” - 1600

“A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.” William Shakespeare, “Love's Labour's Lost” - 1598

“There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death” - 1842

“Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart; th' effect doth operate another way.” William Shakespeare, “Troilus and Cressida” - 1609

“He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.” James Joyce, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” - 1916

“Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in my own life and away from home and friends what the heart is and what it feels. Amen. So be it.” James Joyce, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” - 1916

“Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth, unapt to toil and trouble in the world, but that our soft conditions and our hearts should well agree with our external parts?” William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew” - 1623

“Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd, doth burn the heart to cinders where it is.” William Shakespeare, “Titus Andronicus” - 1594

“He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer the worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs his outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, and ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, to bring it into danger.” William Shakespeare, “Timon of Athens” - 1623

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