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"You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose."
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"My heart is aching for the people of Nice, Italy. I am so sad that I have no words to express my frustration."
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"While we tediously check our weaponry before entering into battle, do we check our hearts? For without exception, that is the greatest weapon of all."
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"Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another."
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"Your heart is your temple."
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"As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled."
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"Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know."
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"I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ."
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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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"My home is my heart. I am wandering through the way of love."
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"She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away."
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"One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue."
Love

"The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die."
Czar

"You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose."
Heart

"His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day."
Time

"In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths."
Family

"Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth."
Growth

"We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful."
Life

"As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns."
Family

"The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them."
Food

"You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses."
Family
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