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:

    “Queen. And must we be divided? Must we part?
    King Richard. Ay, hand from hand, my love, and heart from heart.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)