Mercy is the requiring of obedience to law; it is not a cajoling training in law-defiance, which shall one day break the mother's heart and upset the social relations of the world.

I stood staring like a zany, while black anger filled my heart.

Why, when a native of one of these island groups sets his heart on a particular loaf of bread up his bread-fruit tree, he doesn't bother to climb after it.

Aylmer's attention and kind thought for her had absolutely won her heart.

The most business-like question that ever touches the heart of man is this: For what shall I trade my soul?

Whom he conceived him to be Beaumaroy himself never knew, but he opened his heart to him unreservedly.

At times he had to cut channels for his ships; the men lost heart; and, had the leader not been firm and steadfast, he would never have reached his destination.

" He visited the hospitals and workhouses, and all the money he received he expended on the poor; for he believed that having given his heart to God he had no right to keep anything for himself.

I knew the kind heart of that mother, how truthful it was, and how earnest and pure in its affection for its gentle and only darling.

Don't it warm your heart, Mrs. Suss?

Why, if I thought May Scully and a set-up in business was the thing for you, Jimmie, I'd say to her, I'd say, if it was like taking my own heart out in my hand and squashing it, I'd say to her, I'd say, 'Take him, May.'

It is the office of the spiritual teacher to pluck out sin; to pierce the heart with a recognition of the enormity of sin, and of its far-reaching consequences; to stir the seared conscience, rouse the apathetic life, thrill the spiritual imagination, and to quicken the heart to better love and to nobler dreams.

O God, soften the heart of Chief Njiri and keep Your protecting hand over the young man Kolu.

Whereupon I, who before this seemed to be without life or motionwhy, I do not knowfeeling that the force of the venom was seeking to reach my heart in divers subtle ways, now tossed and rolled upon the cool grass, expecting death at any moment.

But just then the confiding songster began to sing, and after listening to his summery melody the charmed hunter turned away, saying, "Bless your little heart, I can't shoot you, not even for Tom.

The least excuse can bid thee part, And tear with pain this anxious heart.

The cry of the Church calling on all to adore and praise God, Who has done all for us, Who is the Great Shepherd, and we, the sheep of His fold, should not harden our hearts as did the ungrateful Jews.

This is sina contrariness of thingswhich makes the world an evil place to live in, instead of a good; which wrecks character and states, eats the hearts out of cultures and civilizations, destroys strong races, leaves a stain upon even the youngest child, and which is constantly drawing the race downward, instead of upward.

" Before the battle began Nelson made the signal which stirred every heart in the fleet on that day, and has since remained a watchword of the nation: "England expects every man will do his duty".

The sight of him, the sound of his voice, even if he were not saying good morning to her, would cheer her heart for one whole, long, hot day: and if he spoke to her, if he looked at her, nothing could touch her with sadness for hours afterward.

Surely he has tasted it all for us,the baseness and coldness and ingratitude and treachery which have wrung human hearts all through the ages,when Judas betrayed him, Peter denied him and they all forsook him and fled, do you suppose any other pain was comparable to that?

"Sursum corda," says Stevenson, Lift up your hearts Art and Blue Heaven April and God's Larks Green reeds and sky scattering river A Stately Music Enter God.

Report said he had left his heart there with a young Roman.

The very sight of their old commander turned the hearts of the revolting element and the officers remained loyal to their noble leader.

The sight of the sea, which gladdened Livingstone's heart, astonished his native escort beyond description.