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More Quotes by Washington Irving
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Enthusiasts soon understand each other.
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.
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
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.
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.
He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
