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Quotes About Heart

Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart.
~ Mark Twain
The Southern heart is too impulsive; Southern hospitality is too lavish with the stranger. - The Spirit of Tennessee Journalism
~ Mark Twain
The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looked THROUGH them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not service—she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear:
~ Mark Twain
Nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs. Ham and eggs, and after these a pipe - an old, rank, delicious pipe - ham and eggs and scenery, a down grade, a flying coach, a fragrant pipe and and a contented heart - these make happiness. It is what all the ages have struggled for.
~ Mark Twain
One learns people through the heart, not through the eyes or the intellect.
~ Mark Twain
When all else fails, write what your heart tells you. You can't depend on your eyes, when your imagination are out of focus.
~ Mark Twain
The moon got loose last night, and slid down and fell out of the scheme–a very great loss; it breaks my heart to think of it. There isn't another thing among the ornaments and decorations that is comparable to it for beauty and finish. It should have been fastened better. If we can only get it back again-
~ Mark Twain
That was the greatest heart and the simplest that ever beat.
~ Mark Twain
Come! surely you've got a heart hidden away somewhere; open it up; give it air; show at least some little corner of it.
~ Mark Twain
THROUGH them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for style, not service—she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed
~ Mark Twain
On a que le temps pour aimer et pas un instant de plus.
~ Mark Twain
Then her conscience reproached her, and she yearned to say something kind and loving; but she judged that this would be construed into a confession that she had been in the wrong, and discipline forbade that. So she kept silence, and went about her affairs with a troubled heart.
~ Mark Twain
When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved, and the heart. I will keep this diligently in my remembrance, that this day's lesson be not lost upon me, and my people suffer thereby; for learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.
~ Mark Twain
KiÅŸinin kafas? ve kalbi boÅŸsa, karn? tok olmuÅŸ, neye yarar ! Bugün öÄŸrendiklerimi hep akl?mda tutacak, ald???m dersi hiç unutmayacak, halk?m? bu s?k?nt?lardan kurtaraca??m. Ne de olsa insan?n kalbini yumuÅŸatan da, içine iyilik ve cömertlik a??layan da bilgi deÄŸil mi ? / Çal?nan Taç / The Prince and the Pauper
~ Mark Twain
Había una canción en todos los corazones; y si el corazón era joven, la canción asomaba a los labios.
~ Mark Twain
The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Heart may still be the fire in hearth but I'm suddenly too cold to continue, and besides, there's no hearth here anyway and it's the end of June. Thursday. Almost noon. And all the buttons on my corduroy coat are gone. I don't know why. I'm sorry Hailey. I don't know what to do.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
The greatest love letters are always encoded for the one and not the many.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Also remember, love inhabits more than just the heart and mind. If need be it can take shelter in a big toe.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Words will heal your heart. If you ever come to disregard everything I've told you, believe at least this much: your words and only your words will heal your heart.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Quick note here: if this crush–slash–swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach; if you've never had a similar experience, then you should come to grips with the fact that you've got a TV dinner for a heart and might want to consider climbing inside a microwave and turning it on high for at least an hour, which if you do consider only goes to show what kind of idiot you truly are because microwaves are way too small for anyone, let alone you, to climb into.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
This is what it feels like to be really afraid. Though of course it doesn't. None of this can truly approach the reality of that fear, there in the midst of all that bedlam, like the sound of a heart or some other unholy blast, desperate & dying, slamming, no banging into the thin wall of my inner ear, paper thin in fact, attempting to shatter inside what had already been shattered long ago. I should be dead. Why am I still here?
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Make no mistake, the woman had a heart. She had a bigger one that people would think. There was a lot in it, stored up, high in miles of hidden shelving. Remember that she was the woman with the instrument strapped to her body in the long, moon-slit night.
~ Markus Zusak
Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces.
~ Markus Zusak