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His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.

— Anne Bronte

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

— Jeremy Bentham

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

— Jesse Jackson

Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

— Standing Bear

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

— Voltaire

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

— Saint Augustine

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone.

— Paul Celan

The way to a man's heart is through his chest.

— Aaron Allston

✗Opposing Perspectives

That heart alone is hard which does not shudder at itself for not feeling its hardness.

— Saint Bernard

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

— George Herbert