Best heart & aim Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.”

Heart Might Truth Simple Honesty Policy Honor Aim Trade Tone Maxims Identical Honesty Is The Best Policy Aim Of Life

Book:At home and abroad: or, Things and thoughts in America and Europe. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller

Source: At home and abroad: or, Things and thoughts in America and Europe. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller

“Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated station? My Heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best circumstances would permit; yet, I may have been very often mistaken in my judgment of the means.”

Should Heart May Mean Has Beens My Heart Circumstances Judgment Aim Stations Permit Should I Mistaken Do The Best Censure

Book:The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts

“Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.”

People Heart Soul Seems School Used Actors Acting Audience Player Performances Aim Moved Profession Ghost Used To Be Reviews Compliment Buried Stakes Crossroads

Author:David Mamet

“God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children”

Giving Heart Children Littles Soul Earth Faces Purpose Father Race Higher Aim Rounds Affection My Soul Enterprise Faculty Bless Exertion Unselfish Great Father Tender Hearts Happy Smile

Author:Mary Howitt

“Mark, how the ready hands of Death prepare: His bow is bent, and he hath notch'd his dart; He aims, he levels at thy slumb'ring heart: The wound is posting, O be wise, beware.”

Heart Hands Death Levels Wise Ready Mark Aim Wounds Rings Bows Bent Being Wise Notches

Book:Emblems, divine and moral; The school of the heart [really by C. Harvey] and Hieroglyphies of the life of man

Source: Emblems, divine and moral; The school of the heart [really by C. Harvey] and Hieroglyphies of the life of man

“I take square aim at an unbiblical churchianity that has resulted in a church-centric religion that fails to reflect the heart of God for people.”

People Heart Church Failing Aim Squares

Author:Reggie McNeal

“O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames; Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertax'd, its palsied hearts, was rife.”

Heart Born Clear Modern Strange Disease Sick Aim Wit Ran Divided Modern Life Sparkling Thames

Author:Matthew Arnold

“His examiner said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature." "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart."”

Heart Said Literature Break Creation Objects Strange Aim Rounds Covered Blank Fur Break Your Heart

Author:Donald Barthelme

“I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender. And believe in whatever may lie in those things that money can buy, though true love could have been a contender.”

Believe Heart May Has Beens Soul Lying Struggle Claims Aim Lays Idiot Ads Could Have Been

Author:Jackson Browne

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