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harden one's heart



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Idioms and Phrases

Feel no sympathy for, as in We can't afford to give them more; we'll just have to harden our hearts when they ask . [Late 1300s]
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Example Sentences

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"I am a judge of 35 years experience and I have seen in that time a lot of melancholy court cases which somewhat harden one's heart."

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"Often, when saying my prayers, I have wished I could forget him, but I can't, so I have to go on being uncharitable and in sin,—if indeed sin it be to harden one's heart against a bad man."

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It certainly does harden one's heart," she said; "my heart is as hard as a diamond.

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It is no comfort whatever that they are wonderfully beautiful creatures, striped and ringed with a thousand colors in a thousand various ways: one has only to see the riddled appearance of every leaf and flower to harden one's heart.

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When things were hopeless, it was far better to recognize it and harden one's heart.

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