"If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on."
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"The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death."
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""More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent."
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"A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge."
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"When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still."
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"I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course."
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"Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream."
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"Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet."
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"I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core."
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"I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned."
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"We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love"
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"O heart, we are old; The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears."
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"Homer is my example and his unchristened heart."
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"Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or ask if all be right from mirror after mirror, no vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had before the world was made. What if I look upon a man as though on my beloved, and my blood be cold the while and my heart unmoved? Why should he think me cruel or that he is betrayed? I'd have him love the thing that was before the world was made."
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"Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles, its flamings out of the uncivilized heart."
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"What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible."
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"Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed."
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"The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find if hearts be wild and wise, And yet not cold." "I would but find what's there to find, Love or deceit." "It was the mask engaged your mind, And after set your heart to beat, Not what's behind." "But lest you are my enemy, I must enquire." "O no, my dear, let all that be, What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?""
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"A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech."
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"Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth Saving in thine own heart."
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