American - Writer | April 3, 1783 - November 28, 1859
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.
Washington Irving
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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.
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
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The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
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I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
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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.
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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
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A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
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