Virgil - Heart Quotes

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In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.

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Blest pair! if aught my verse avail,
No day shall make your memory fail
From off the heart of time.

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Him through the fire these shoulders bore,
And from the heart of battle tore.

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And in the heart's yet quivering strings
Spells out the lore of hidden things.

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These words he spoke, but spoke not from his heart;
His outward smiles conceal'd his inward smart.

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Despair, and rage, and love divide her heart;
Despair and rage had some, but love the greater part.

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To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed craving for gold!

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Sighs, groans, and tears, proclaim his inward pains,
But the firm purpose of his heart remains.

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There are tears shed for things even here and mortality touches the heart.

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The gods, if gods to goodness are inclined;
If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind,
And, more than all the gods, your generous heart.
Conscious of worth, requite its own desert!

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O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

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