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“The same heart beats in every human breast.”

Humans Heart Beats Breasts Heart Beat

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.”

Humans Virtue Flower Breasts Modesty

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“It may be from some moral obliquity in myself, or from some strange disease; but for me, and I should think too for every human being in whose breast a human heart is beating, to know that one single creature is in that dreadful place would make a hell of heaven itself. And they have hearts in heaven, for they love there.”

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Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one who at some point or other has not been in love. If we consider the high abstraction of this feeling, its depth, its purity, its voluptuous refinement, even in the meanest breast, how sacred and how sweet it is, this alone may reconcile us to the lot of humanity. That drop of balm turns the bitter cup to a delicious nectar.”

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.”

Humans Mean Passion Interest Violent Breasts Fury

Book:Karl Marx: Selected Writings

Source: Karl Marx: Selected Writings