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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
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History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.
— Washington Irving
somehow or other, there is a genial sunshine about you that warms every creeping thing into heart and confidence. Your
— Washington Irving
True love will not brook reserve; it feels undervalued and outraged, when even the sorrows of those it loves are concealed from it.
— Washington Irving
I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.
— Washington Irving
He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero.
— Washington Irving
The youthful freshness of a blameless heart.
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They who drink beer will think beer.
— Washington Irving
Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.
— Washington Irving
There is nothing in this world so hard to get at as truth, and there is nothing in this world but truth that I care for.
— Washington Irving
Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character.
— Washington Irving
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
— Washington Irving
I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials.
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And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate ...
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A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; because love is more the study and business of her life.
— Washington Irving
I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.
— Washington Irving
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
— Washington Irving
Christmas is here, Merry old Christmas, Gift-bearing Christmas, Day of grand memories, King of the year!
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Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue.
— Washington Irving
No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.
— Washington Irving
Every antique farm-house and moss-grown cottage is a picture.
— Washington Irving
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
— Washington Irving
There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection.
— Washington Irving
There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.
— Washington Irving
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.
— Washington Irving
The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.
— Washington Irving
It was Shakespeare's notion that on this day birds begin to couple; hence probably arose the custom of sending fancy love-billets.
— Washington Irving
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
— Washington Irving
The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
— Washington Irving
Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint.
— Washington Irving
Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England
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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
— Washington Irving
It has also been the peculiar lot of our country to be visited by the worst kind of English travellers.
— Washington Irving
Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.
— Washington Irving
It's a fair wind that blew men to ale.
— Washington Irving
The moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl.
— Washington Irving
There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart
— Washington Irving
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
— Washington Irving
The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.
— Washington Irving
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
— Washington Irving
A woman's life is a history of the affections.
— Washington Irving
The oil and wine of merry meeting.
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Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.
— Washington Irving
After a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
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Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trepass on that of others.
— Washington Irving
One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right.
— Washington Irving
The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.
— Washington Irving
There is nothing like the silence and loneliness of night to bring dark shadows over the brightest mind.
— Washington Irving
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
— Washington Irving
There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government.
— Washington Irving
Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it
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Connecticut, a State which supplies the Union with pioneers for the mind as well as for the forest,
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
— Washington Irving
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.
— Washington Irving
I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
— Washington Irving
Enthusiasts soon understand each other.
— Washington Irving
The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.
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To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.
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Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.
— Washington Irving
Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
— Washington Irving
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[I]n the gloomy month of February ... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time ...
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There is a sacredness in tears
— Washington Irving
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
— Washington Irving
He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare.
— Washington Irving
Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.
— Washington Irving
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
— Washington Irving
No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.
— Washington Irving
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
— Washington Irving
He that drinks beer, thinks beer.
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
— Washington Irving
Too young for woe, though not for tears.
— Washington Irving
The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination.
— Washington Irving
But what courage can withstand the ever-during and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue?
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The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.
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Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.
— Washington Irving
Ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.
— Washington Irving
I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and never be obliged to reply to them.
— Washington Irving
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
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Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.
— Washington Irving
I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!
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The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.
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It's a dog eat dog world. But only if the second dog is more stupid than the first.
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There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
— Washington Irving
Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
— Washington Irving
There is a majestic grandeur in tranquillity.
— Washington Irving
There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.
— Washington Irving
The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
— Washington Irving
It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod.
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