Heart

Heart

The heart is a hollow muscle that pumps blood throughout the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions. It is found in all animals with a circulatory system (including all vertebrates).

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Famous quotes containing the word heart:

    “If love the virgin’s heart invade,
    How, like a moth, the simple maid
    Still plays about the flame!”
    —John Gay (1685–1732)

    “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 13:12.

    “Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man’s subordination.... The individual is the heart of society, conserving the essence of social life; society is the lungs which are distributing the element to keep the life essence—that, is, the individual—pure and strong.”
    —Emma Goldman (1869–1940)