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“Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.”

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John Lyly, born in 1553, was an influential English writer of the Renaissance period. Known for his plays and prose, he is considered one of the pioneers of English drama. more

“How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us - are arrested developments, calcified tendencies, buds of promise that should have lifted a branch up into the sunny day with fruit; and flowers to delight the heart of men, but now all grown hard, petrified, for want of culture and a congenial soil and climate.”

“The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.”

Way Heart Nature Fancy Ache Pilgrim Chuckles

Book:The Select Works of John Bunyan: Containing the Pilgrim's Progress ... with a Life of the Author

Source: The Select Works of John Bunyan: Containing the Pilgrim's Progress ... with a Life of the Author

“Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?”

Men Heart Nature Core

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.”

Heart May Soul Whole Passion Fate Produce Building Architect

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.”

Heart Attractive Quantity Attractiveness

Book:The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: Jan. 1829-Sept. 1831

Source: The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: Jan. 1829-Sept. 1831

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