"And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery."
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"Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man."
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"The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart."
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"Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all."
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"Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before."
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"I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart."
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"I haven't written for a few days, because I wanted first of all to think about my diary. It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I-nor for that matter anyone else-will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen -year -old schoolgirl. Still, what does that matter? I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart."
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"You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken."
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"Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. Become a stranger to need of pity. Or if compassion be freely given out, take only enough. Stop short of the urge to plead, then purge away the need. Wish for nothing larger than your own small heart or greater than a star. Tame wild disappointment with caress, unmoved and cold. Make of it a parka for your soul. Discover the reason why so tiny human midget exists at all, so scared and so unwise. But expect nothing, live frugally on surprise."
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"What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving."
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"He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in."
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"It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned."
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"Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle."
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"No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman."
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"I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I was distressed to find so much vindictiveness in so charming a creature. I did not realize how motley are the qualities that go to make up a human being. Now I am well aware that pettiness and grandeur, malice and charity, hatred and love, can find place side by side in the same human heart."
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"Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come."
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"I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart."
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"In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people."
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"A mind that's open to everything means being peaceful, radiating love, practicing forgiveness, being generous, respecting all life, and most important, visualizing yourself as capable of doing anything that you can conceive of in your mind and heart."
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"The youthful freshness of a blameless heart."
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