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The youthful freshness of a b...

The youthful freshness of a blameless heart.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

If I can, by a lucky chance, ...

If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart of one moment of sadness; if I can, how and then, prompt a happier view of human nature, and make my reader more in good humor with his fellow-beings and himself, surely, I shall not have written in vain.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

The great British Library --a...

The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

There is an emanation from th...

There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

Wit, after all, is a mighty t...

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 247 quotes

Some minds corrode and grow i...

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

Redundancy of language is nev...

Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

As the vine which has long tw...

As the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils and bind up its shattered boughs, so is it beautifully ordered by Providence that woman, who is the mere dependent and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with sudden calamity, winding herself into the rugged recesses of his nature, tenderly supporting the drooping head, and binding up the broken heart.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

Nothing impresses the mind wi...

Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

A kind heart is a fountain of ...

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smil

Washington Irving 247 quotes

A woman's life is a history of...

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

Washington Irving 247 quotes

There is a certain relief in c...

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 247 quotes

The Indians with surprise foun...

The Indians with surprise found the mouldering trees of their forests suddenly teeming with ambrosial sweet; and nothing, I am told, can exceed the greedy relish with which they banquet for the first time upon this unbought luxury of the wilderness.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

To look upon its grass grown y...

To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

He who would greatly deserve m...

He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare.

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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.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

It was, as I have said, a fine...

It was, as I have said, a fine autumnal day; the sky was clear and serene, and nature wore that rich and golden livery which we always associate with the idea of abundance. The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tendered kind had been nipped by the frosts into brilliant dyes of orange, purple, and scarlet.

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And if unhappy in her love, he...

And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate...

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The only happy author in this ...

The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

There is certainly something i...

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

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