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1. "But a wide sea voyage severs us at once. It makes us conscious of being cast loose from the secure anchorage of settled life, and sent adrift upon a doubtful world. It interposes a gulf, not merely imaginary, but real, between us and our homes--a gulf, subject to tempest, and fear, and uncertainty, rendering distance palpable, and return precarious." ~ Washington Irving
2. "A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use." ~ Washington Irving
3. "They who drink beer will think beer." ~ Washington Irving
4. "The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude." ~ Washington Irving
5. "A woman's whole life is a history of the affections." ~ Washington Irving
6. "There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble." ~ Washington Irving
7. "I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!" ~ Washington Irving
8. "The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use." ~ Washington Irving
9. "It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat." ~ Washington Irving
10. "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
11. "Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works in quest of food for his unhealthy appetite. He was, in a manner, a literary ghoul, feeding in the charnel-house of decayed literature." ~ Washington Irving
12. "To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace." ~ Washington Irving
13. "Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody." ~ Washington Irving
14. "There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love." ~ Washington Irving
15. "Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart." ~ Washington Irving
16. "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
17. "Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart." ~ Washington Irving
18. "Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart." ~ Washington Irving
19. "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
20. "A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles." ~ Washington Irving
21. "Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them." ~ Washington Irving
22. "An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather." ~ Washington Irving
23. "Great minds have purposes; others have wishes." ~ Washington Irving
24. "Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant." ~ Washington Irving
25. "Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love." ~ Washington Irving
26. "There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard." ~ Washington Irving
27. "Age is a matter of feeling, not of years." ~ Washington Irving
28. "I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration." ~ Washington Irving
29. "The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation." ~ Washington Irving
30. "It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave." ~ Washington Irving
31. "Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him." ~ Washington Irving
32. "He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart." ~ Washington Irving
33. "Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains, with bright aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts, thundering in their solitudes; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure; her broad, deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence; her skies, kindling with the magic of summer clouds and glorious sunshine - no, never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery." ~ Washington Irving

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