Washington Irving Quotations

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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.
	- Washington Irving	more quotations on [History]

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	more quotations on [History]

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
	- Washington Irving	more quotations on [Random]

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
	- Washington Irving	more quotations on [Action]

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.
	- Washington Irving	more quotations on [Mothers]

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.
	- Washington Irving	more quotations on [Mothers]

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.
	- Washington Irving	more quotations on [Mothers]

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.
	- Washington Irving	more quotations on [Books]

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land.
	- Washington Irving	more quotations on [Money]

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.
	- Washington Irving	more quotations on [Adversity]

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
	- Washington Irving	more quotations on [Purpose]

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
	- Washington Irving	more quotations on [Women]

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.
	- Washington Irving	more quotations on [Change]

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
	- Washington Irving	more quotations on [Smiles]

There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.
	- Washington Irving	more quotations on [Fishing]

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