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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.

In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.

Ambrose Bierce
Funny, Integrity, Heart
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.68, University of Georgia Press

EMOTION, n. A prostrating disease caused by a determination of the heart to the head. It is sometimes accompanied by a copious discharge of hydrated chloride of sodium from the eyes.

Ambrose Bierce
Determination, Heart, Eye
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.66, University of Georgia Press

In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart.

Ambrose Bierce
Heart, Funny Relationship, Psychology

I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.

Ambrose Bierce
Fear, Heart, Atheism
Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz (1998). “A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography”, p.177, Univ. of Tennessee Press

LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The sentiments and emotions which every literary anatomist now knows to haunt the heart were anciently believed to infest the liver; and even Gascoygne, speaking of the emotional side of human nature, calls it "our hepaticall parte." It was at one time considered the seat of life; hence its name- liver, the thing we live with.

Ambrose Bierce
Heart, Science, Emotional
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.152, University of Georgia Press

Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.

Ambrose Bierce
Heart, Animal, Men
Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1209, Delphi Classics

The creator and arbiter of beauty is the heart; to the male rattlesnake the female rattlesnake is the loveliest thing in nature.

Ambrose Bierce
Beauty, Heart, Males
Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2691, Delphi Classics

HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.

Ambrose Bierce
Heart, Cat, Israel
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.114, University of Georgia Press

MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart.

Ambrose Bierce
Heart, Men, Soul
Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.167, University of Georgia Press

HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments . . . . It is now known that sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid.

Ambrose Bierce
Heart, Action, Emotion
Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.116, ReadHowYouWant.com

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