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From Quotes by Washington Irving
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse.
- The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.
- Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a…
- The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every…
- Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady…
- There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that…
- Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.
- There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may…
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