Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.” — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like the silence and loneliness of night to bring dark shadows over the brightest mind.” — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“It must be particularly borne in mind, that Mahomet did not profess to set up a new religion ; but to restore… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share
Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius… — Washington Irving Copy Share
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands.… — Washington Irving Copy Share
Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest… — Washington Irving Copy Share
I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with… — Washington Irving Copy Share
There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor. — Washington Irving Copy Share
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most… — Washington Irving Copy Share
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it… — Washington Irving Copy Share
Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in… — Washington Irving Copy Share
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns,… — Washington Irving Copy Share
There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of… — Washington Irving Copy Share
There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games… — Washington Irving Copy Share
It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will,… — Washington Irving Copy Share
