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Washington Irving Quotes
«Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Fulfilment,
Hope
| Keywords:
acting, as good as, fulfilled, fulfillment, provides
«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 it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place»
«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.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| Keywords:
affliction, brood, brooded, broods, cherish, divorced, every other, heal, keep open, wound
«After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| Keywords:
charms, deficient, divinities, divinity, fascinated, regular
«Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all!»
«A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
| About:
Affection,
Love,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
affections, History of, History of the
«There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.»