"The happiest heart that ever beat Was in some quiet breast That found the common daylight sweet, And left to Heaven the rest."

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Source : Bliss Carman, John Vance Cheney, Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts, Charles Francis Richardson, Francis Hovey Stoddard (1904). “The World's Best Poetry ...”

John Vance Cheney

#Sweet Quotes #Heart Quotes #Heaven Quotes

“President Obama is not polarizing, but the media sure is.”
“Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen is not the tool or instrument of government - but the reverse... If you have no privacy, it will tend to follow that you have no political freedom...”
“Usually when the opposing team does well, the crowd quiets down. All I began to hear was a chant 'L-S-U, L-S-U.' It got louder and louder and louder. It was the loudest I've ever heard a stadium.”
“We all have our own battles to fight, and sometimes we have to go it alone. I'm stronger than you think, you'd be surprised.”

Source : Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2014). “Now I'll Tell You Everything”, p.492, Simon and Schuster
“I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.”
“Well, the thing is, I actually have a fear of horses, so I wouldnt make a very good cowboy.”
“This path belongs to those who are not cold, whose hearts have not become stone, and whose heads have not become so swollen that they can't hear the voice of the soul. This path will belong to those who, with all their strengths and weaknesses, will still serve others.”
“Ah, life, life, how madly, how cruelly it raced along your pulses!”

Source : Martha Ostenso (1929). “The Young May Moon”

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