"Take heart" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lay. But even at that moment of exhaustion the knife had been a talisman and a help. He grasped the rough wooden handle, all too small for a Western hand, and he ran his fingers over the rough rust upon the blade, and the weapon spoke to him and bade him take heart, since once he had been put to the test and had not failed. But long before he saw the white houses of Suakin that feeling of elation vanished, and the knife became an emblem of the vain tortures of his boyhood ...
— The Four Feathers • A. E. W. Mason
... O my friends, take heart, and these indignities endure, Although every week brings news of an indubitable cure; We have lived and flourished freely ever since the world began, And our lineage is as ancient surely as is that of man; While I'll venture the prediction, as a wind-up to my song, That, despite these dreadful ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, March 21, 1891 • Various
... Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and ship-wrecked brother, Seeing, may take heart again." ...
— How to Get on in the World - A Ladder to Practical Success • Major A.R. Calhoon
... disgust. There was, however, just a grain of consolation. With an imprisoned tail, escape was impossible. Now that he was free to move, there was surely a chance of squeezing through those bars. He must take heart and gird himself for the struggle. No mouse, however, if he can help it, enters upon a serious undertaking ungroomed. So he sat back on his hind legs and commenced an elaborate toilet. First he licked his tiny hands and worked them ...
— "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" - Studies of Animal life and Character • Douglas English
... a rock in the midst of the breakers. I always looked to you, Blucher; the thought of you always strengthened and encouraged me, and when I at times felt like giving way to despair, I said to myself, 'For shame, Scharnhorst! take heart and hope, for Blucher still lives, and so long as ...
— NAPOLEON AND BLUCHER • L. Muhlbach
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