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Whenever a man's friends begi...

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

A sharp tongue is the only ed...

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

The easiest thing to do, when...

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

A tart temper never mellows w...

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

Marriage is the torment of on...

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

Sweet is the memory of distan...

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

Little minds are tamed and su...

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

There is in every true woman'...

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 247 quotes

Temper never mellows with age...

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

A woman's whole life is a his...

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

There is in every woman's hea...

There is in every 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 247 quotes

Those men are most apt to be ...

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

Over no nation does the press...

Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

A mother is the truest friend...

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 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.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

I have never found, in anythi...

I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with a clean page, a new theme, and a mind awake.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

A father may turn his back on...

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

There is a sacredness in tear...

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

By a kind of fashionable disc...

By a kind of fashionable discipline, the eye is taught to brighten, the lip to smile, and the whole countenance to emanate with the semblance of friendly welcome, while the bosom is unwarmed by a single spark of genuine kindness and good-will.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

After all, it is the divinity...

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

They who drink beer will thin...

They who drink beer will think beer.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

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