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More Quotes by Washington Irving
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it
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.
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.
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!
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.
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
