"He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart."
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"He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely."
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"A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds."
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"Is man, indeed, a walrus at heart?"
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"At times , he didn't understand the meaning of the Koran's words . But he said he liked the enhancing sounds the arabic words made as they rolled off his tongue . He said they comforted him , eased his heart . "They'll comfort you too . Mrariam jo , " he said . "You can summon then in your time of your need , and they won't fail you . God's words will never betray you , my girl . (pg.17)"
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"She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed."
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"On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men, Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts."
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"Sorrow is too great to exist in small hearts."
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"These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret."
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"Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?"
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"Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names."
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"All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart."
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"If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter?"
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"The wind may blow and then cease, and the sea shall swell and then weary, but the heart of life is a sphere quiet and serene, and the star that shines therein is fixed for evermore."
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"All this I say that you may understand not only in the mind but rather in the spirit. The mind weighs and measures but it is the spirit that reaches the heart of life and embraces the secret; and the seed of the spirit is deathless."
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"Master, Master Poet, Master of our silent desires, The heart of the world quivers with the throbbing of your heart, But it burns not with your song."
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"Does the song of the sea end at the shore or in the hearts of those who listen to it?"
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"Capitalism cannot be reduced to one or a few features, but it does possess one relationship, central to its existence and operation, that constitutes the essence of inequality and ineradicable instability: the wage-labor-capital connection that dwells at the heart of the system."
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"Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity."
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"No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself."
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