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Others may write from the head...

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

[I]n the gloomy month of Febru...

[I]n the gloomy month of February.... The Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time...

Washington Irving 247 quotes

Jealous people poison their ow...

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

Washington Irving 247 quotes

It is but seldom that any one ...

It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

One point is certain, that tru...

One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

Into the space of one little h...

Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

Those who are well assured of ...

Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trepass on that of others.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

The sorrow for the dead is the...

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

No man knows what the wife of ...

No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

To occupy an inch of dusty she...

To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

The Englishman is too apt to n...

The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

The slanders of the pen pierce...

The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.

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.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

There is no character in the c...

There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

A few amber clouds floated in ...

A few amber clouds floated in the sky without a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a pure apple-green, and from that into the deep blue of the mid-heaven.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

Believe me, the man who earns ...

Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.

Washington Irving 247 quotes

Her mighty lakes, like oceans ...

Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains with their right aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts, thundering in their solitudes; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure; her brought deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence; her skies, kindling waves in the magic of the summer clouds and glorious sunshine;-no, never need an American look beyond his own country f

Washington Irving 247 quotes

For what is history, but... hu...

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 247 quotes

History fades into fable; fact...

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders 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?

Washington Irving 247 quotes

Some minds corrode and grow in...

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

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....