Giovanni Boccaccio Quotes

Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.

I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love.

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.

Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the earliest days to be a riddle and a stumbling-block, unexplained to themselves, passed over in silence by others.

You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for you, you have increased in one evening as I should have thought only a lifetime of intimate, loving association could have increased them. You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression, except in some great poem which I cannot write.

The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness.

Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.

He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.

Nothing fine and noble will ever perish from the earth as long as there are hearts to remember.

Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.

Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.

You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.

Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.

According to Buddhist scriptures, compassion is the "quivering of the pure heart" when we have allowed ourselves to be touched by the pain of life.

I'm open to love, and I think that I will fall in love with a wonderful man.