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"Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds."

Elspeth Huxley, Kenyan Writer
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"In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished."

Charles Kendall Adams, American Educator
Heart, Columbus, Fire, Old
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"A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man."

John Adams, American President
Heart, Desire, Man
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"If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it."

Joseph Addison, English Writer
Heart, Laughter, Man, May
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"There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet
Heart, Fear
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"Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting."

Josef Albers, German Artist
Heart, Contrast, Painting
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"No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it."

James Allen, British Author
Heart, Man, Temptation
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"The way to a man's heart is through his chest."

Aaron Allston, American Novelist
Heart, Man
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"She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away."

William Allingham, Irish Poet
Heart, Song
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"Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved."

Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian Poet
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"A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart."

Pietro Aretino, Italian Poet
Heart, Cowardice, Mind
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