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More Quotes by Washington Irving
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.
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.
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
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.
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.
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.
Enthusiasts soon understand each other.
