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More Quotes by Washington Irving
There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
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.
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.
Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.
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.
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven
