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The human heart is a great green tree, and many strange birds come and sing in its branches; a few build nests, but most are from far lands north and south, and never come again.

— 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.

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

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