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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Topic: Adversity
Source: None
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A woman's life is a history of the affections.
Topic: Affection
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Change
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Change
Source: None
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As I sat on a sunny bank
On Christmas day in the morning
I spied three ships come sailing in.
Topic: Christmas
Source: The Sketch Book--The Sunny Bank
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
Topic: Dignity
Source: None
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Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass
of a guinea.
Topic: Eating
Source: The Stout Gentleman
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His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.
Topic: Faults
Source: The Sketch Book--John Bull
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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.
Topic: Heart-quotes
Source: None
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. -Washington Irving.
Topic: Heart-quotes
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Heroes
Source: The Sketch Book--Westminster Abbey
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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.
Topic: Heroism
Source: None
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Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Topic: Marriage
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Misfortune
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Mothers
Source: None
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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?
Topic: Ruin
Source: The Sketch Book--Westminster Abbey
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Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface.
Topic: Society
Source: None
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A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Topic: Temper
Source: None
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Here's to your good health, and your family's good health, and
may you all live long and prosper.
Topic: Toasts
Source: Rip Van Winkle, (from The Sketch Book) as used by Joseph Jefferson
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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.
Topic: Whippoorwills
Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, (from The Sketch Book)
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
Topic: Women
Source: None
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