Heart Quote by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“The heart is never neutral.”

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

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Remember that there is nothing in God but what is godlike; and that He is either not at all, or truly and perfectly good.

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Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same…

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A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty…

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Men of sense are really all of one religion. But men of sense never tell what it is.

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If we are told a man is religious we still ask what are his morals? But if we hear at first that he has…

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They who are great talkers in company have never been any talkers by themselves, nor used to private discussions of our home regimen.

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Never did any soul do good but it came readier to do the same again, with more enjoyment. Never was love or gratitude or…

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When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so.

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To love the public, to study universal good, and to promote the interest of the whole world, as far as lies within our power,…

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Nothing affects the heart like that which is purely from itself, and of its own nature; such as the beauty of sentiments, the grace…

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