Honoré de Balzac - Heart Quotes

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Envy lurks at the bottom of the human heart like a viper in its hole.

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Music appeals to the heart, whereas writing is addressed to the intellect; it communicates ideas directly, like perfume.

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There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.

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Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves.

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Our heart is a treasury; if you spend all its wealth at once you are ruined. We find it as difficult to forgive a person for displaying his feeling in all its nakedness as we do to forgive a man for being penniless.

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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

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Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.

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Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

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The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

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A woman who is guided by the head, and not by the heart, is a social pestilence: she has all the defects of the passionate and affectionate woman, with none of her compensations; she is without pity, without love, without virtue, without sex.

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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

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She who is really a wife, one in heart, flesh, and bone, must follow wherever he leads, in whom her life, her strength, her pride, and happiness are centered.

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Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature?

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The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

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White hair often covers the head, but the heart that holds it is ever young.

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You cannot pluck love out of your heart as you would pull a tooth.

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