Quotes

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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
― Washington Irving
Fear
Real
Humble
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
― Washington Irving
Sports
Hero
Idols
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Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.
― Washington Irving
Mind
Overcoming
Greater
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Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.
― Washington Irving
Happiness
Mirrors
Light
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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.
― Washington Irving
Nature
Forests
Study
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.
― Washington Irving
Men
Poverty
Ruined
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He that drinks beer, thinks beer.
― Washington Irving
Humorous
Beer
Thinking
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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.
― Washington Irving
Art
Men
Imagination
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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
― Washington Irving
Marriage
Two
Three
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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.
― Washington Irving
Happiness
Laughter
Wine
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
― Washington Irving
Inspirational
Motivational
Wisdom
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Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven
― Washington Irving
Light
Heaven
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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.
― Washington Irving
Believe
Men
Sweat
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
― Washington Irving
Christmas
Heart
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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.
― Washington Irving
Love
Marriage
Sympathy
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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
― Washington Irving
Inspirational
Positive
Meaningful
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Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.
― Washington Irving
Virtue
Mask
Dangerous
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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
― Washington Irving
Age
Tools
Growing
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A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
― Washington Irving
Dog
Sleep
Pet
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
― Washington Irving
Inspirational
Motivational
Success
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