Edward Young Heart Quotations

A death-bed's a detector of the heart.

Amid my list of blessings infinite, stands this the foremost, "that my heart has bled."

The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.

The first sure symptom of a mind in health Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.

Not all the pride of beauty; Those eyes, that tell us what the sun is made of; Those lips, whose touch is to be bought with life; Those hills of driven snow, which seen are felt: All these possessed are nought, but as they are The proof, the substance of an inward passion, And the rich plunder of a taken heart.

Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.

Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?

Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but himselfThat hideous sight,-a naked human heart.

To ""leave a sting within a brother's heart