All LORD CHESTERFIELD Quotes about “Heart”

“Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.”
“Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained.”
“This is the day when people reciprocally offer, and receive, the kindest and the warmest wishes, though, in general, without meaning them on one side, or believing them on the other. They are formed by the head, in compliance with custom, though disavowed by the heart, in consequence of nature.”
“Smooth your way to the head, through the heart. The way of reason is a good one; but it is commonly something longer, and perhapsnot so sure.”
“The heart has such an influence over the understanding, that it is worth while to engage it in our interest.”
“Study the heart and the mind of man, and begin with your own. Meditation and reflection must lay the foundation of that knowledge, but experience and practice must, and alone can, complete it.”
“It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.”
“Half the business is done, when one has gained the heart and the affections of those with whom one is to transact it.”

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