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" These Washington Irving Quotes will inspire you and make you think! "A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."
Washington Irving
"A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."
Washington Irving
"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."
Washington Irving
"After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty."
Washington Irving
"Age is a matter of feeling, not of years."
Washington Irving
"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."
Washington Irving
"He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart."
Washington Irving
"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
"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."
Washington Irving
"Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster."
Washington Irving
"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
"The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude."
Washington Irving
"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
"The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible."
Washington Irving
"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
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