Great Throughts Treasury

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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 |

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 |

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 |

François-René de Chateaubriand, fully François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand

As long as the heart preserves desire, the mind preserves illusions.

Desire | Heart | Mind | Wisdom |

Allan Chalmers, fully Allan Knight Chalmers

The only popularity worth aspiring after, is the popularity of the heart - the popularity that is won in the bosom of families, and at the side of death beds.

Death | Heart | Popularity | Wisdom | Worth |

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart felt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.

Heart | Poetry | Truth | Wisdom |

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 |