Source: Almost Like Being in Love
“So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lies.”
Stebbing's Sir Walter Raleigh, chapter 30, gives these as Raleigh's words on being asked by the executioner which way he wanted to lay his head on the block.
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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 137.

Quoted by Ron Grossman, "Nelson Algren's Chicago" http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-nelson-algren-flashback-chicago-authors-perspec-0326-jm-20170324-story.html, The Chicago Tribune, March 25, 2017.
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“We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.”

As quoted in Sophie Scholl: The Real Story of the Woman who Defied Hitler (2009) by Frank McDonough
Context: I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it. Unprepared, given over to childish trivialities, it could be taken by surprise when the great hour comes and find that, for the sake of piffling pleasures, the one great joy has been missed. I am aware of this, but my heart is not. It seems unteachable; it continues its dreaming … always wavering between joy and depression.
“The straightest way to the heart of old matters is an old letter.”
Source: Modern thinkers and present problems, (1923), p. 3 : Chapter 1. Giordano Bruno, 1548-1600

“If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.”
As quoted in Earl Warren : A Great American Story (1948) by Irving Stone, p. 64
1940s