"The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image."

Heart, Despair, Mystery, Reflection

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"The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image."

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Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling."

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"Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?"

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart."

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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

Eleanor Roosevelt, American First Lady

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

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Barry Switzer, American Coach

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