Washington Irving

A mother is the truest friend we have...

— Washington Irving

He that drinks beer, thinks beer.

— Washington Irving

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

— Washington Irving

The youthful freshness of a blameless heart.

— Washington Irving

after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head

— Washington Irving

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

— Washington Irving

The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.

— Washington Irving

Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint.

— Washington Irving

Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.

— Washington Irving

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

— Washington Irving

The portion of a law usually found unconstitutional is the teeth

— Washington Irving

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion.

— Washington Irving

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

— Washington Irving

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

— Washington Irving

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

— Washington Irving

Young lawyers attend the courts not because they have business there but because they have no business anywhere else

— Washington Irving

For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as…

— Washington Irving

The moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of…

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Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trespass on that of others, whereas nothing is so…

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Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They…

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I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and…

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“There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in…

— Washington Irving

I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and…

— Washington Irving

The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of…

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The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated, except by those…

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He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in…

— Washington Irving

The Indians with surprise found the mouldering trees of their forests suddenly teeming with ambrosial sweet; and nothing, I am told, can…

— Washington Irving

I could not but smile to think in what out-of-the-way corners genius produces her bantlings! And the Muses, those capricious dames, who,…

— Washington Irving

The dullest observer must be sensible of the order and serenity prevalent in those households where the occasional exercise of a beautiful…

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Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but theyare…

— Washington Irving

It is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable; that when the real world is shut out, it…

— Washington Irving

“and he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path…

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“The forests had put on their sober brown and yellow, while some trees of the tenderer kind had been nipped by the…

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There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging…

— Washington Irving

“The foregoing circumstances, physical and moral, may give an idea of the causes which maintained the Arabs for ages in an unchanged…

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“It is remarkable that circumcision, which is invariably practiced by thE Mahometans, and forms a distinguishing rite of their faith, to which…

— Washington Irving

“But it is meet I should, in the true spirit of romantic story, give some account of the looks and equipments of…

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“…It was to complete his marriage with Maimuna, the daughter of Al Hareth, the Helalite. He had become betrothed to her on…

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“It was his belief, furthermore, that this religion, so elevated and simple, had repeatedly been corrupted and debased by man, and especially…

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“Jehennam is a region fraught with all kinds of horrors. The very trees have writhing serpents for branches, bearing for fruit the…

— Washington Irving