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A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. - Washington Irving Quotes

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

Washington Irving

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all! - Washington Irving Quotes

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all!

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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 Quotes

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.

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Acting And Actors

Christmas! 'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart - Washington Irving Quotes

Christmas! 'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart

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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love. - Washington Irving Quotes

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.

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The grate had been removed from the wide overwhelming fireplace, to make way for a fire of wood, in the midst of which was an enormous log glowing and blazing, and sending forth a vast volume of light and heat; this I understood was the Yule-log, which the Squire was particular in having brought in and illumined on a Christmas eve, according to ancient custom. - Washington Irving Quotes

The grate had been removed from the wide overwhelming fireplace, to make way for a fire of wood, in the midst of which was an enormous log glowing and blazing, and sending forth a vast volume of light and heat; this I understood was the Yule-log, which the Squire was particular in having brought in and illumined on a Christmas eve, according to ancient custom.

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Fire

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old - Washington Irving Quotes

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old

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Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface - Washington Irving Quotes

Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface

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A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion. - Washington Irving Quotes

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

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A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. - Washington Irving Quotes

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

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American Writer

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. - Washington Irving Quotes

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

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American Writer inspirational Love

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use - Washington Irving Quotes

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use

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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. - Washington Irving Quotes

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

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American Writer

Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them. - Washington Irving Quotes

Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.

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American Writer

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No -- no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. - Washington Irving Quotes

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No -- no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.

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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal -- every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open -- this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. - Washington Irving Quotes

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal -- every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open -- this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. - Washington Irving Quotes

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

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American Writer

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles. - Washington Irving Quotes

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

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American Writer

It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them. - Washington Irving Quotes

It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.

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A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use. - Washington Irving Quotes

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

American Writer

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard - Washington Irving Quotes

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard

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Editor's Pick inspirational Quote of the Day

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. - Washington Irving Quotes

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

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American Writer

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. - Washington Irving Quotes

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

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American Writer Gifts

Ay, go to the grave of buried love and meditate! There settle the account with thy conscience for every past benefit unrequited - every past endearment unregarded, of that departed being, who can never, never, never return to be soothed by thy contr - Washington Irving Quotes

Ay, go to the grave of buried love and meditate! There settle the account with thy conscience for every past benefit unrequited - every past endearment unregarded, of that departed being, who can never, never, never return to be soothed by thy contr

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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. - Washington Irving Quotes

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

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American Writer

. . . he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was--a woman. - Washington Irving Quotes

. . . he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was--a woman.

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Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant - Washington Irving Quotes

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant

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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart - Washington Irving Quotes

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more. - Washington Irving Quotes

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

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There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place - Washington Irving Quotes

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place

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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 Quotes

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

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American Writer

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. - Washington Irving Quotes

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

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American Writer

A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use - Washington Irving Quotes

A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use

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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day. - Washington Irving Quotes

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

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American Writer Angels

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless -- for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. - Washington Irving Quotes

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The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible - Washington Irving Quotes

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible

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After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty - Washington Irving Quotes

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty

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There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present. - Washington Irving Quotes

There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.

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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. - Washington Irving Quotes

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Washington Irving

American Writer Charity

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. - Washington Irving Quotes

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

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American Writer inspirational Quote of the Day

They who drink beer will think beer. - Washington Irving Quotes

They who drink beer will think beer.

Washington Irving

American Writer

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end. - Washington Irving Quotes

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

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American Writer Man

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. - Washington Irving Quotes

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

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American Writer Discipline

The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or ''pure English, undefiled'' wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought. - Washington Irving Quotes

The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or ''pure English, undefiled'' wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

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I've had it with you and your emotional constipation! - Washington Irving Quotes

I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

Washington Irving

American Writer

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. - Washington Irving Quotes

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Washington Irving

American Writer Love

A woman's life is a history of the affections - Washington Irving Quotes

A woman's life is a history of the affections

Washington Irving

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible. - Washington Irving Quotes

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

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American Writer

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. - Washington Irving Quotes

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

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American Writer

A woman's life is a history of the affections. - Washington Irving Quotes

A woman's life is a history of the affections.

Washington Irving

American Writer

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