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The human heart to youth is a fairy-land of adventure, to old age it is a sitting room where one knows his way in the dark.

— Frank Crane Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919)

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You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.

The human heart is a cup of love, where some find life and zest, and some drunkenness and death.

Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919)

The human heart is an undiscovered country; men and women are forever perishing as they explore its wilds.

Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919)

The human heart is an egg; and out of it are hatched this world and heaven and hell.

Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919)

The human heart is a garden, wherein grow weeds of memory and blooms of hope, and the snow falls at last and covers all.

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