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A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
Category: Action Author: Washington Irving Source: Bible
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There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Category: Adversity Author: Washington Irving Source: The Sketch Book
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The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Washington Irving
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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.
Category: Change Author: Washington Irving
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There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.
Category: Fishing Author: Washington Irving
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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?
Category: History Author: Washington Irving
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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.
Category: History Author: Washington Irving Source: History of New York
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Category: Miscellaneous Author: Washington Irving
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A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
Category: Mothers Author: Washington Irving
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A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
Category: Mothers Author: Washington Irving
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The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.
Category: Mothers Author: Washington Irving
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Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
Category: Purpose Author: Washington Irving
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Category: Smiles Author: Washington Irving
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
Category: Women Author: Washington Irving
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