Great Throughts Treasury

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Bernard Baruch, fully Bernard Mannes Baruch

Whatever task you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul. Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except the consciousness of doing your best.

Blame | Consciousness | Heart | Nothing | Soul | Wisdom | Approval |

Bible or The Bible or Holy Bible NULL

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Heart | Will | Wisdom |

Ludwig Börne, fully Karl Ludwig Börne

It is not the mind, it is the heart that makes free.

Heart | Mind | Wisdom |

Jean de La Bruyère

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

Better | Heart | People | Wisdom |

Guiraut de Borneilh

Love is perfect kindness, which is born - there is no doubt - from the heart and eyes. The eyes make it blossom; the heart matures it.

Doubt | Heart | Kindness | Love | Wisdom |

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 |

J. E. Buckrose, pseudonymn of Annie Edith Foster Jameson

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life.

Happy | Life | Life | Love | Wisdom |

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

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Passion | Wisdom |

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 |