Sentence examples for a stone of the heart from inspiring English sources

"Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart," he says.

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart – but it is also pretty certain to lose you elections.

Or perhaps it should be an abstract plinth bearing a quotation from WB Yeats's poem Easter, 1916: "Too long a sacrifice / Can make a stone of the heart".

Yeats writes in "Easter 1916", the greatest of war poems, "Too long a sacrifice / Can make a stone of the heart".

"TOO long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart," said Michael Noonan, Ireland's finance minister, quoting Yeats, to justify an easing of austerity measures when he presented his 2014 budget to the Irish parliament on October 15th.

Although the poem interrogates the use of violence, asking, "Was it needless death, after all," for example, and includes the lines "Too long a sacrifice / Can make a stone of heart," the poem's refrain was what would be noticed and quoted most.

He was always true to himself, and no sacrifice made a stone of his heart".

By the time the influenza reaches Commonwealth, the other guard, Graham, a 25-year-old married man who "feared his own coldness," has let sacrifice make a stone of his heart.

Encased in a natural sarcophagus of stone, the heart was the size of a grapefruit and had fossilized into reddish-brown stone 66 million years ago.

But personal relationships, personal stories, and personal experiences are the water that will erode the stone of the hardened heart.