"I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration."
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"He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart."
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"Maidens hearts are always soft: Would that men's were truer!"
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"When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed."
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"BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there."
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"Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart."
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"I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core."
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"The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail."
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"A thousand kisses buys my heart from me; And pay them at thy leisure, one by one."
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"The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand."
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"Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent."
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"How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!"
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"Can I go forward when my heart is here?"
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"Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth."
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"Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?"
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"Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!"
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"When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress."
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"I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest."
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"As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28)."
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"Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out."
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