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find it in one's heart



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Idioms and Phrases

Persuade oneself to do something, as in They were an hour late, but I couldn't find it in my heart to scold them . This expression, today generally put in the negative, alludes to searching self-examination. [Mid-1400s]
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One could find it in one’s heart to forgive the yellow brick; but this red, never.

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None the less, when one remembers the heavy debt of vengeance, for long years of grinding cruelty and wicked wrong, which the Sâkai owes to the Malay, one can find it in one's heart to forgive much that he may do when the savage lust of blood is upon him, and when, for a space, his enemies of the hated race are delivered into his hand.

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In such a moment one could find it in one's heart to believe that some ethereal soulless creature, like Ariel of the "Tempest," was floating at one's side, directing one's attention, like a petulant child, to the things that touched its light-hearted fancy, and constraining one into an unsought enjoyment.

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“It’s no good, old man,” he says, with a sickly smile, so full of pathos that it is impossible to find it in one’s heart to feel anything but pity for him. 

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