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More Quotes by Washington Irving
Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner. He tries to compress as much thought as possible into a few words. On the contrary, the man who talks everlastingly and promiscuously, who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so many words into his thoughts that he always obscures, and very frequently conceals them.
I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!
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.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare.
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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 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.
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
