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And he returned, and implored the Most High God, and believed, beseeching Him with a burning in his heart, saying, 'O Most High God, O Creator of the Heavens and of the earth, O Creator of all created things!

O my son! if thou hearest a word, let it die in thy heart, and reveal it not to another, lest it become a live coal and burn thy tongue and cause a pain in thy body, and thou gain a reproach, and art shamed before God and man.

O my son! the blindness of the heart is more grievous than the blindness of the eyes, for the blindness of the eyes may be guided little by little, but the blindness of the heart is not guided, and it leaves the straight path, and goes in a crooked way.

O my son! the blindness of the heart is more grievous than the blindness of the eyes, for the blindness of the eyes may be guided little by little, but the blindness of the heart is not guided, and it leaves the straight path, and goes in a crooked way.

O my son! keep a word in thy heart, and it shall be much to thee, and beware lost thou reveal the secret of thy friend.

O my son! let not a word issue from thy mouth till thou hast taken counsel with thy heart. And stand not betwixt persons quarrelling, because from a bad word there comes a quarrel, and from a quarrel there comes war, and from war there comes fighting, and thou wilt be forced to bear witness; but run from thence and rest thyself.

And the king went on weeping night and day. Now when the swordsman saw the wrath of the king and his sorrow for Haiqar, his heart was softened towards him,, and he approached into his presence and said to him:

And when the king heard this speech from Haiqar he rejoiced with a great joy, and his heart was expanded and he showed him favour.

Therefore with many divers prayers I called upon Him who ruleth the heart that the king might be constrained to grant my request.

When the decree was brought to be read over to the king for his approval, it contained all the other provisions except the phrase 'any captives who were in the land before that time or were brought hither afterwards,' and in his magnanimity and the largeness of his heart the king inserted this clause and gave orders that the grant of money required for the redemption should be deposited in full with the paymasters of the forces and the royal bankers, and so the matter was decided and the decree ratified within seven days.

For the man who is always watching for his own gain is a traitor at heart. But you possess the affection of all your subjects by the help of the good counsel which God bestows upon you.'

And Eleazar, as if their counsel did but add to his tortures, cried loudly: 'No. May we sons of Abraham never have so evil a thought as with faint heart to counterfeit a part unseemly to us.

But as many as with their whole heart make righteousness their first thought, these alone are able to master the weakness of the flesh, believing that unto God they die not, as our patriarchs, Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, died not, but that they live unto God.

Let us take pity on our own youth and have compassion on our mother's age; and let us lay to heart that if we disobey we shall die.

Art thou not ashamed, being a man, O wretch with the heart of a wild beast, to take men of like feelings with thyself, made from the same elements, and tear out their tongues, and scourge and torture them in this manner?

And each and all of them together, looking at each other brightly and very boldly, said, 'With a whole heart will we consecrate ourselves unto God who gave us our souls, and let us lend our bodies to the keeping of the Law.

But consider how manifold are the yearnings of a mother's heart, so that her feeling for her offspring becomes the centre of her whole world; and indeed,

But Inspired Reason lent her heart a man's strength under her passion of suffering, and exalted her to make no account of the present yearnings of mother-love.

Thou has given thy heart, O Lord, to thy believers: never wilt thou fail, nor be without fruits:

And they shall bring their songs, and their heart shall be like the day: and like the excellent beauty of the Lord their pleasant song:

And let your love be multiplied from the heart and even to the lips,

I willed and fashioned mind and heart: and they are mine, and by my own right hand I set my elect ones:

The Lord hath directed my mouth by His word: and He hath opened my heart by His light: and He hath caused to dwell in me His deathless life;

And I was unpolluted by my love for them, because they confessed me in high places: and the traces of the light were set upon their heart:

My heart was cloven and its flower appeared; and grace sprang up in it: and it brought forth fruit to the Lord,

For the Most High clave my heart by His Holy Spirit and searched my affection towards Him: and filled me with His love.

Because His love bath nourished my heart, and even to my lips His fruits He poured out.

And the worlds were made by His word, and by the thought of His heart. Glory and honour to His name. Hallelujah.

My heart was lifted up in the love of the Most High and was enlarged: that I might praise Him for His name's sake.

The sacrifice of the Lord is righteousness, and purity of heart and lips.

Present your reins before Him blamelessly: and let not thy heart do violence to heart, nor thy soul to soul.

Present your reins before Him blamelessly: and let not thy heart do violence to heart, nor thy soul to soul.

My heart ran over and was found in my mouth: and it arose upon my lips; and the exultation of the Lord increased on my face, and His praise likewise. Hallelujah.

And I will speak His holy song, for my heart is with Him.

I will cry unto him from my whole heart: I will praise and exalt Him with all my members.

So also are the wings of the Spirit over my heart:

My heart is delighted and exults: like the babe who exults in the womb of his mother:

For the thought of the Most High cannot be anticipated; and His heart is superior to all wisdom. Hallelujah.

For it flows forth from the lips of the Lord and from the heart of the Lord is its name.

No way is hard where there is a simple heart.

And my heart poured out as it were a gushing stream of righteousness,

And I spake with the lips of my heart; and He heard me, when my voice reached I Him:

And then they leave them; and then these go about like madmen corrupting: seeing that-they are without heart, nor do they seek for it!

So my heart gushes out the praise of the Lord and my lips utter praise to Him, and my tongue His psalms.

For His bounty begat me, and the thought of His heart: