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Heart Quotes by George Eliot
- Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then…
- It is never too late, no matter how old you get because anytime or any point in your life you can always have a chance…
- It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit…
- The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but…
- It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.
- A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to…
- Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
- If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's…
- A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take…
- Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to…
- Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had…
- Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by…
- Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.
More Heart Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. — Mary Astell
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin