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• Like hearts of oak.
  -- Francis Rabelais (1495-1553) -- Works, The Author's Prologue to the Fifth Book...
• While the hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea.
  -- Allan Cunningham (1785-1842) -- A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea...
• We are hopelessly enchanted. Blame it on the angels. Blame it on our wild hearts!
• An oak is not feel'd at one chop. -- Proverb
• And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.
  -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861) -- A Vision of Poe...
• So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. -- Psalms 90:10
• Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts... -- Robert Fulghum
• Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,-- Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee,--are all with thee!
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- The Building of the Ship...
• A song to the oak, the brave old oak, Who hath ruled in the greenwood long!
  -- H. F. Chorley (1831-1872) -- The Brave Old Oak...