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The hearts of some women tremble like leaves at every breath of love which reaches them, and they are still again. Others, like the ocean, are moved only by the breath of a storm, and not so easily lulled to rest.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ocean, Heart, Storm
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.147
The hearts of some women tremble like leaves at every breath of love which reaches them, and they are still again. Others, like the ocean, are moved only by the breath of a storm, and not so easily lulled to rest.