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More Quotes by Washington Irving
Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
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.
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven
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.
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.
The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.
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.
