"At heart" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... seeing it all, to being in the sunshine, to feeling the breeze on his hot brow! But what—he wondered—had happened to him? He looked at it all, but he felt no joy. It all seemed dead and empty. He turned his back on it and crawled indoors again, sad and sick at heart. He was sure that he would never feel again "the wild ...
— The Book of Missionary Heroes • Basil Mathews
... either to Taquisara or to the priest that they could keep their secret forever and allow matters to proceed to such a conclusion. Don Teodoro was far too earnest a believer and a churchman at heart to allow what he should consider a great sin to be committed without any attempt to hinder it, and with the Sicilian the point of honour was concerned, as well as a deeply rooted adherence to social tradition and to the forms and ceremonies of religion in which he had been brought up. They were ...
— Taquisara • F. Marion Crawford
... mind about being careful, then. Just answer me that question. Why, if I had not your interests sincerely at heart, should I have ticked ...
— Right Ho, Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse
... When sick at heart, with "hope deferr'd," Kind sleep his wasting form embrac'd, Some ready minion ply'd the lash, And the lov'd ...
— A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. • Benjamin Waterhouse
... instinctively human and kind in it. He had a little habit of kneading gently the hand he held, of clinging to it a trifle longer than was needed. Every one of the six or seven hundred men in the building knew that the head of the business was at heart a plain man like themselves, who had never forgotten the day he sold his first bill of goods, and respected all his men each in his place as a man. They knew his "record" as a merchant and were proud of it. They ...
— Together • Robert Herrick (1868-1938)
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