Dead Hearted

For I fear nothing more, than that many ministers, who preach well, will be found but imperfectly qualified for this work, especially to manage it with old, ignorant, dead-hearted sinners. ❋ 1615-1691 (1974)

Is there a dead-hearted woman in all God's beautiful world, I wonder, who would not weep again, if she could, over life's yellowing symbols ❋ Unknown (1897)

” exclaimed he, “thou conceivest, dead-hearted worldling, that thou canst be a friend? ❋ Unknown (1917)

We give ourselves license to react to fictional particulars, if only to assure ourselves that our day-in-day-out distance from general realities doesn’t make us dead-hearted people who walk around smothered in an emotional Snuggie. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When it teakes your honour, you’re all heat, and fire, and fury, Lord bless us! but when it catches poor Tim, he’s cold and dead-hearted, he sheakes and shivers like an aspen leaf, that he does.” ❋ Unknown (2004)

For months after Elizabeth’s funeral, the dead-hearted house sat empty, adrift in wild grass and packed with the cargo of four lifetimes. ❋ REYNOLDS PRICE (1988)

His fire wakes kindred fire ... why must we leave the business of teaching to the corpse-minded, the dead-hearted? like so many of our professors and teachers!” ❋ Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 (1922)

His fire wakes kindred fire ... why must we leave the business of teaching to the corpse-minded, the dead-hearted? like so many of our professors and teachers! " ❋ Harry Kemp (1921)

Lord bless us! but when it catches poor Tim, he's cold and dead-hearted, he sheakes and shivers like an aspen leaf, that he does. " ❋ Tobias George Smollett (1746)