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• Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more room for consolation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Comfort, Rooms

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.174, Discovery House

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• Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Trials, Trouble

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• For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Heart, Brain, Glimpse

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2011). “The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes”, p.140, House of Stratus

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• On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Heart, Path, Action

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.65, 谷月社

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• Music is also one of the great heart openers. Sometimes, you hear the lyrics of a song and you dance, laugh, smile, or perhaps even cry.

  Michael Franti

  Song, Heart, Laughing

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm doing great heart-wise. I get a complete stress test once a year, and those have gone well. I have stents in two arteries, and they are holding up. My other arteries haven't shown any additional clogging.

  Alberto Salazar

  Wise, Stress, Heart

  Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 5, 2012.

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• A Great voice has fallen silent. A great heart has stopped.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Heart, Voice, Silent

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• Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.

  Philip James Bailey

  Sympathy, Heart, Men

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.40

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• To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.

  Melvil Dewey

  Strong, Heart, Greatness

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• Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Spring, Heart, Tears

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• Hand
  Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,
  And great hearts expand
  And grow one in the sense of this world's life.

  Robert Browning

  Friendship, Eye, Heart

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.159, Wildside Press LLC

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• And what is the joy of Christ? The joy and delight which springs forever in His great heart, from feeling that He is forever doing good; from loving all, and living for all; from knowing that if not all, yet millions on millions are grateful to Him, and will be forever.

  Charles Kingsley

  Spring, Grateful, Heart

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Good News of God: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I like the roar of cities. In the mart, Where busy toilers strive for place and gain, I seem to read humanity's great heart, And share its hopes, its pleasures, and its pain.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Pain, Heart, Cities

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.601, Delphi Classics

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• God give us men! A time like this demands. Strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not die.

  J. G. Holland

  Time, Strong, Heart

  J.G. HOLLAND (1872). “THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.”, p.89

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• Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Happy, Education

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

  Victor Hugo

  Struggle, Heart, Ideas

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• Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.

  John Bunyan

  Strong, Heart, Men

  John Bunyan (2005). “The Pilgrim's Progress”, p.261, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• We're going to show great heart. DACA is a very, very difficult subjects, one of the most difficult. You have these incredible kids in many cases, not in all cases, in some of the cases they are gang members and drug dealers, too. But you have some absolutely incredible kids, I would say mostly. They were brought here in such a way, it's a very, very tough subject.

  Donald Trump

  Heart, Kids, Gang Members

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift. . . . I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.

  Alison Croggon

  Pain, Heart, Suffering

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• A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.

  Jean Rostand

  Heart, Power, Humanity

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

  James Russell Lowell

  Patience, Passion, Heart

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.166, Delphi Classics

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• You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!" It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds -- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Loyalty, Hurt, Heart

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection With illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - 4 Novels, 56 Short Stories and 120+ illustrations”, p.1667, Ageless Reads

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• You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Prayer, Home

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• Everyone remembers Stuart Pearce as a determined, aggressive player, who played with great heart and enthusiasm that gave him a great career in the game.

  Alex Ferguson

  Heart, Player, Games

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• The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great nerve center from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Running, Heart, Moon

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8485, Delphi Classics

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