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Washington Irving Inspirational Quotes (161)

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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
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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.
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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
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I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
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Rising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapours, but these will gradually roll away and disappear, as it ascends to its steady and meridian lustre.
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
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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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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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Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
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after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head
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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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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.
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Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.
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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 the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
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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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There is a sacredness in tears
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No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.
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The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart they rankle longest in the noblest spirits they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.
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There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.
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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
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Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trespass on that of others, whereas nothing is so offensive as the aspirings of vulgarity which thinks to elevate itself by humiliating its neighbor.
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