Even a fake marriage to Bridey Taylor filled his heart with unaccountable joy, and he went home after school and put on his dark-gray recital suit and a tie.

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My heart leaped for joy.

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My heart soared with joy.

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Great joy welled up in my heart, and I stayed outside in the damp air for a long time, dreaming of how we could start our life anew someday.

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The human condition, the human mind, the human heart, is responding constantly to elements of joy, to elements of sadness, to elements of - well, everything that's going on.

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Innovation is not for the faint of heart, nor for those who lack the capacity for joy.

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"Even at 70, 80, the heart doesn't age" if one is inspired by Christian joy, said the 76-year-old pontiff.

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Someone once described the joy and anxiety of parenthood as the equivalent of having your heart outside of your body all the time, walking around.

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" The show's best moments exposed the essence of Nico's compositions: The excellent Joan Wasser, who performs as Joan as Police Woman, tapped the raw anguish in "My Heart Is Empty" and "Ari's Song, " while Jonathan Donahue of Mercury Rev delivered with muted joy the stark poetic imagery of "Evening of Light.

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