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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
| Heart |
| The honest heart that’s free frae a’ Intended fraud or guile, However Fortune kick the ba’ Has aye some cause to smile. Burns.—Epi. To Davie, Verse 3. | 1 |
| The heart aye’s the part aye, That makes us right or wrang. Burns.—Epi. To Davie, Verse 5. | 2 |
| Alas! by some degree of woe We every bliss must gain: The heart can ne’er a transport know That never feels a pain. Lyttleton.—A Song, A.D. 1732. | 3 |
| He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks. Shakespeare.—Much Ado About Nothing, Act III. Scene 2. (Don Pedro in praise of Benedick.) | 4 |
| 1. O, Hamlet! thou hast cleft my heart in twain. 2. O throw away the worser part of it, And live the purer with the other half. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4. (To his Mother.) | 5 |
| And nature gave thee, open to distress, A heart to pity, and a hand to bless. Churchill.—Prophecy of Famine. | 6 |
| With every pleasing, every prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want? She wants a heart. Pope.—Moral Essays, Epi. II. Line 159. | 7 |
| The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven. Longfellow.—The Spanish Student, Act II. sc. 1. | 8 |
| I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at; I am not what I am. Shakespeare.—Othello, Act I. Scene 1. (Iago to Roderigo before Brabantio’s house.) | 9 |
| The turnpike road to people’s hearts, I find, Lies through their [mouths,] or I mistake mankind. Dr. Wolcot.—Peter’s Prophecy, ed. 1790. Pa. 116. | 10 |
| Flattery’s the turnpike road to Fortune’s door. Wolcot.—Ode 10, Last Verse, A.D. 1785. | 11 |
| Heaven’s sovereign saves all beings but himself That hideous sight—a naked human heart. Dr. Young.—Night III. Line 226. | 12 |
| Oh, tiger’s heart, wrapp’d in a woman’s hide! Shakespeare.—King Henry VI., Part III. Act I. Scene 4. (York to Queen Margaret, who had induced Clifford to kill Rutland.) | 13 |
| In aught that tries the heart, how few withstand the proof! Byron.—Childe Harold, Canto II. Stanza 66. | 14 |
| The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun; And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on. Byron.—Childe Harold, Canto III. Stanza 32. | 15 |
| Never morning wore To evening, but some heart did break. Tennyson.—In Memoriam, 6, Verse 2. | 16 |
| Leap hearts to lips, and in our kisses meet. Fletcher.—Love’s Cure, Act III. Scene 2. | 17 |
| The precious porcelain of human clay. Byron.—Don Juan, Canto IV. Stanza 11. | 18 |
| None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it. Trench.—On the Prodigal Son, Page 381, Ed. 9. | 19 |
| Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it? John Lyly.—Euphues, Page 334, (Reprint 1868.) | 20 |
| Who made the heart, ’tis He alone, Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord—its various tone Each spring its various bias: Then at the balance let’s be mute, We never can adjust it; What’s done we partly may compute, But know not what’s resisted. Burns.—Address to the Unco Guid, Verse 8. | 21 |
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