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More Quotes by Washington Irving
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in 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.
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven
The love of a mother is never exhausted. It never changes - it never tires - it endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute. In the face of the world's condemnation, a mother's love still lives on.
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.
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.
