"The head is not more native to..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
The head is not more native to the heart.
More by William Shakespeare
“Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.”
“O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.”
“Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds.”
More on Mind
“Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind”
“Thought makes everything fit for use.”
“When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and the rapidity of its transitions. Before one of them is half through a sentence the other knows his meaning and replies. ... His mental lungs breathe more deeply, in an atmosphere more broad and vast.”
More on Emotion
“I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.”
“One could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. For how could one express in words these emotions of the body? express that emptiness there?”
“But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.”