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More Quotes by Washington Irving
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in 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.
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
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.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart
Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.
