Date: w. c. 90, trans. 1611

"And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart."

— Luke the Evangelist (d. c. 84)

Date: 1611

"But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?"

— Luke the Evangelist (d. c. 84)

Date: 1611-12, 1623

"Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased; / Pluck from the memory of a rooted sorrow; / Raze out the written troubles of the brain; / And with some sweet oblivious antidote / Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff / Which weighs upon the heart?"

— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Date: 1611

"This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead."

— Author Unknown

Date: 1611

"My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart."

— Author Unknown

Date: 1611

"Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross."

— Author Unknown

Date: 1611

"Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee."

— Author Unknown

Date: 1611

"For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness."

— Author Unknown

Date: 1614, 1638

"The soules of Women and Lovers, are wrapt in the port-manque of their senses."

— Overbury, Sir Thomas (bap. 1581, d. 1613)

Date: 1632

"Looke as it is with a Gold smith that melteth the metall that he is to make a vessell of, if after the melting thereof, there follow a cooling, it had beene as good it had never beene melted, it is as hard, haply harder, as unfit, haply unfitter, then it was before to make vessell of; but after ...

— Hooker, Richard (1554-1600)