72 ordspråk av Washington Irving

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Washington Irving föddes den 3 april 1783 och dog den 28 november 1859 - called the first American man of letters. Best known for the short stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle.
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 It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

 It is, indeed, the season of regenerated feeling--the season for kindling, not merely the fire of hospitality in the hall, but the genial flame of charity in the heart.

 It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow

 Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

 Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

 Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

 My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

 Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.

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

 Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

 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 luster.

 Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface

 Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

 Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

 The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land.


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