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And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate (Washington Irving Quotes)
There is nothing in this world so hard to get at as truth, and there is nothing in this world but truth that I care for (Washington Irving Quotes)
There is nothing like the silence and loneliness of night to bring dark shadows over the brightest mind (Washington Irving Quotes)
But what courage can withstand the ever - during and all - besetting terrors of a woman's tongue? (Washington Irving Quotes)
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love (Washington Irving Quotes)
... ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves (Washington Irving Quotes)
For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as valuable to me as a hero of history that existed a thousand years ago (Washington Irving Quotes)
Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him (Washington Irving Quotes)
He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart (Washington Irving Quotes)
It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave (Washington Irving Quotes)
There are certain half - dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed (Washington Irving Quotes)
How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles (Washington Irving Quotes)
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 (Washington Irving Quotes)
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 Quotes)
There is 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 (Washington Irving Quotes)
I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories (Washington Irving Quotes)
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin (Washington Irving Quotes)
True love will not brook reserve; it feels undervalued and outraged, when even the sorrows of those it loves are concealed from it (Washington Irving Quotes)
Wit, after all, is a mighty tart, pungent ingredient, and much too acid for some stomachs; but honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting (Washington Irving Quotes)
With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief (Washington Irving Quotes)
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner (Washington Irving Quotes)
A father may turn his back on his child, …. but a mother’s love endures through all (Washington Irving Quotes)
A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity (Washington Irving Quotes)
The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value (Washington Irving Quotes)
For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species (Washington Irving Quotes)
The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation (Washington Irving Quotes)
In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part (Washington Irving Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude! (Washington Irving Quotes)
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 Quotes)