Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

Samuel Rutherford

Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there.

Samuel Rutherford

Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.

Samuel Rutherford

Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.

Samuel Johnson

Inquiries into the heart are not for man.

Samuel Johnson

Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.

Samuel Johnson

Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.

Samuel Johnson

We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

Samuel Johnson

The greatest human virtue bears no proportion to human vanity. We always think ourselves better than we are, and are generally desirous that others should think us still better than we think ourselves. To praise us for actions or dispositions which deserve praise is not to confer a benefit, but to pay a tribute. We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable, and which we are desirous to strengthen by a new suffrage; we have always hopes which we suspect to be fallacious, and of which we eagerly snatch at every confirmation.

Samuel Johnson

When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.

Sarah Shahi

It doesn't matter what people say or what the rules say or what you're supposed to do, you go after what's in your heart.

Vittorio Alfieri

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Virgil

In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.

William Henry Harrison

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

William Howard Taft

The true Mason is the Tiler of the Temple of the Heart.

William Howard Taft

The prosperity of Masonry as a means of strengthening our religion and propagating true brotherly love, is one of the dearest wishes of my heart, which, I trust, will be gratified by the help of the Grand Architect of the Universe.

William Howard Taft

I prefer an income tax, but the truth is I am afraid of the discussion which will follow and the criticism which will ensue if there is an other division in the Supreme Court on the subject of the income tax. Nothing has injured the prestige of the Supreme Court more than that last decision, and I think that many of the most violent advocates of the income tax will be glad of the substitution in their hearts for the same reasons. I am going to push the Constitutional amendment, which will admit an income tax without questions, but I am afraid of it without such an amendment.

Washington Irving

There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease.

Washington Irving

The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.

Washington Irving

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.

Washington Irving

And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate...

Washington Irving

The youthful freshness of a blameless heart.

Washington Irving

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

Voltaire

To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

Voltaire

Music is the pathway to the heart.

Voltaire

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

Voltaire

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Voltaire

Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

Voltaire

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.