| 28 Famous Quotes by Washington Irving
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“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.”
Being a woman Quotes |
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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 messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.”
Communication Quotes |
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“Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.”
Fulfilment Quotes |
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“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
Mothers Quotes |
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“Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.”
Overcoming Quotes |
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“Here's to your good health, and your family's good health, and
may you all live long and prosper.”
Toasts Quotes Source: Rip Van Winkle, (from The Sketch Book) as used by Joseph Jefferson
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“The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our
recollection, and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor
of to-morrow.”
Heroes Quotes Source: The Sketch Book--Westminster Abbey
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“His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.”
Faults Quotes Source: The Sketch Book--John Bull
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“The moon of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry
of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of
the screechowl.”
Whippoorwills Quotes Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, (from The Sketch Book)
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“Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass
of a guinea.”
Eating Quotes Source: The Stout Gentleman
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“As I sat on a sunny bank
On Christmas day in the morning
I spied three ships come sailing in.”
Christmas Quotes Source: The Sketch Book--The Sunny Bank
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“History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and
controversy; the inscription moulders from the tablet: the
statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what
are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters
written in the dust?”
Ruin Quotes Source: The Sketch Book--Westminster Abbey
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“There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.”
Change Quotes |
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“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.”
Misfortune Quotes |
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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.”
Heroism Quotes |
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“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.”
Mothers Quotes |
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“A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.”
Women Quotes |
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“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.”
Inspirational Quotes |
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“An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.”
Inspirational Quotes |
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“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.”
Adversity Quotes |
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“A woman's life is a history of the affections.”
Affection Quotes |
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“There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.”
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“There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.”
Dignity Quotes |
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“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. -Washington Irving.”
Heart-quotes Quotes |
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“A kind heart is a fountain of gladness making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. -Washington Irving.”
Heart-quotes Quotes |
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