"O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted."
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"O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet."
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"Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine."
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"It warms the very sickness in my heart, That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, "Thus diddest thou;""
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"Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain."
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"Set your heart at rest. The fairyland buys not the child of me."
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"Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart. Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself."
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"Fair Katherine, and most fair, Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms Such as will enter at a lady's ear, And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?"
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"Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee."
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"What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” “My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white. A little water clears us of this deed: How easy it is then! Your constancy hath left you unattended."
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"Be collected. No more amazement. Tell your piteous heart There's no harm done."
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"He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks."
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"The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune."
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"And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man."
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"Failure should never go to heart and success should never go to head, both makes a person to fall in life."
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"Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts."
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"No sky is heavy if the heart be light"
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment."
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"My heart says one thing. My head says another. Very hard to get your heart and head together in life."
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"Rather than live on in the hearts and minds of my fellow man, I would rather live on in my apartment."
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