"The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything."
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"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be."
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"I love [my father] so much with all my heart and my soul with every bone in my body I love him so much because he's done so much for me."
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"Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts."
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"And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men."
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"Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love."
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"Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any period decays in our minds, the things of that period should decay too, and in that way they're preserved for a while in the few hearts like mine that react to them. Trying to preserve a century by keeping its relics up to date is like keeping a dying man alive by stimulants."
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"A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words."
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"Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro’s troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people. It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances, which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro’s warm little heart. My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines."
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"Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by the reed of the scribe. As a fossil in the rock, or a coin in the mortar of a ruin, So the symbolled thoughts tell of a departed soul: The plastic hand hath its witness in a statue, and exactitude of vision in a picture, And so, the mind, that was among us, in its writings is embalmed."
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"You can't break my heart. It's made of water."
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"A beautiful woman like eyes, and a good heart; One is a beautiful thing, and other treasures."
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"He who is unmoved by tears has no heart."
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"My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover."
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"I was never satisfied with casual encounters, I can't hide my need for two hearts that bleed with burning love."
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"A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man."
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"History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents."
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"Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result."
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"I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress."
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"The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat."
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