"The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital."

Heart, Being, Expression, Prose

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"The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital."

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"The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Aphrodite: Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.Percy: But... I don't know where it's going. My heart, I mean."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"My heart want to feel the touch.Feel the eternal love so much."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Feel, now let your heart be your light; imagination is your way and bliss is your destination."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"The heart has reasons that the mind will never understand."

Osho, Indian Philosopher

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"Dear heart, love everyone and anyone. Please make me nonjudgmental."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"True love asks no question of the heart. It knows with surety."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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