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"Heartstrings" Quotes from Famous Books

... the men who have woven From passion and appetite chains To coil with a terrible tension Around their heartstrings and brains. ...

— Poems • Frances E. W. Harper

... he said. "Yet Borrowdean is one of those men who know very well how to play upon the heartstrings. A human being is like a musical instrument to him. He knows how to find out the ...

— A Lost Leader • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... say to you what I said in North Carolina and in the same words: I would hang every man higher than Haman who would attempt to resist by force the execution of any provision of the Constitution which our fathers made and bequeathed to us. You cannot sever this Union unless you cut the heartstrings that bind father to son, daughter to mother, and brother to sister in all our new states and territories. I love my children, but I do not desire to ...

— Children of the Market Place • Edgar Lee Masters

... their own unerring instincts, as in that vivid situation of the shy, departing suitor when Karin Ingmarsson suddenly breaks through convention and publicly over the coffee cups declares herself betrothed. The book is a succession of these brilliantly portrayed situations that clutch at the heartstrings—the meetings in the mission house, the reconciliation scene when Ingmar's battered watch is handed to the man he felt on his deathbed he had wronged, the dance on the night of the "wild hunt," the shipwreck, Gertrude's ...

— Jerusalem • Selma Lagerlof

Words linked to "Heartstrings" : compassion, love, compassionateness