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“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 strong desires of man's insatiate breast may stand possess'd Of all that earth can give; but earth can give no rest.”

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Book:Quarles' emblems, illustr. by C. Bennett and W.H. Rogers

Source: Quarles' emblems, illustr. by C. Bennett and W.H. Rogers