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:
“I said to Heart, “How goes it?” Heart replied: “Right as a Ribstone Pippin!” But it lied.”
—Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)
“The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares its joy.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 14:10.
“Lady Dellwyn ... for the first time began to entertain some suspicions that she had a heart to bestow. Not that she was actuated by that romantic passion which creates indifference to every other object and makes all happiness to consist in pleasing the beloved person, [but] only overstraining delicacy so much as to feel it almost a crime to charm any other.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)