There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

Washington Irving

Jealousy Never Regard Strong

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

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Back Flow Heart Lost

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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.

Washington Irving

Community Continually Ears Ever

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

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Great Great Minds Minds Others

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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Washington Irving

Dead Effect Elevate Mind

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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.

Washington Irving

Delights Fills Majesty Noble

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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

Contrition Deep Eloquently Grief

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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.

Washington Irving

Course Effected Enemy Harm

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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

Age Constant Grows Never

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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

Gifts Good Good Nature Heaven

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

Washington Irving

Enough Little Man Nothing

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I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

Washington Irving

Always Am Believe How

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

Washington Irving

Enmity Felicity Marriage Strife

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I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

Washington Irving

Emotional Had You Your

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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Washington Irving

Charity Christmas Fire Flame

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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

Washington Irving

He Heart Imagination Senses

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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

Departing Distant Falls Friends

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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.

Washington Irving

After Beauty Been Charms

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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

Bad Bruised Certain Change

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The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

Washington Irving

Approach Become Charm Distance

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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

Abundant Companionship Equal Good

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Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

Washington Irving

Doubted Eloquence Enthusiasm Indeed

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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

D. H. Lawrence

Alive Beast Bird Flower

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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

D. H. Lawrence

Complete Final Gathered Modification

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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

D. H. Lawrence

Genuine Got Hot Moves

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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

D. H. Lawrence

Better Die Life Live

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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

D. H. Lawrence

Art Blood Bones Creative

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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

D. H. Lawrence

Allow Came Freedoms Hard

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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

D. H. Lawrence

Calendar Change Equity Ethics

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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

D. H. Lawrence

Certain Conceited Countries God

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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

D. H. Lawrence

Beautiful Expression Finds Right

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I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

D. H. Lawrence

Done Fall Find God

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I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

D. H. Lawrence

Believe Converted First Hears

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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

D. H. Lawrence

Admire Bandit Bear Book

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I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

D. H. Lawrence

Always Anything Close Mountains

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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

D. H. Lawrence

Care Cure Follies Mean

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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

D. H. Lawrence

Actor Audience Author Business

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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

D. H. Lawrence

Feel Good Sneeze Spiteful

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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

D. H. Lawrence

Bird Dead Drop Frozen

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D. H. Lawrence

Always Love Priest Shall

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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

D. H. Lawrence

Glad Invincible Steps Strangled

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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

D. H. Lawrence

Dry Rule Stick Streak

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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

D. H. Lawrence

Bitter Body Difficult Live

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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

D. H. Lawrence

Bad Being Funeral Perpetual

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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

D. H. Lawrence

Life Ours Saved Spent

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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

D. H. Lawrence

Bites Curse Deep Literature

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D. H. Lawrence

Blossoms Brief Duration Enjoyed

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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

D. H. Lawrence

Animal Fear Men World

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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

D. H. Lawrence

Collective Madness Money Vast

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My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

D. H. Lawrence

Easily Folks God Love

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Washington Irving

Washington Irving

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.

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Washington Irving

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.

Washington Irving

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

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.

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

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

Washington Irving

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!

Washington Irving

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Washington Irving

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

Washington Irving

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

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.

Washington Irving

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

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

Washington Irving

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

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

Washington Irving

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

D. H. Lawrence

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

D. H. Lawrence

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

D. H. Lawrence

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

D. H. Lawrence

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

D. H. Lawrence

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

D. H. Lawrence

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

D. H. Lawrence

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

D. H. Lawrence

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

D. H. Lawrence

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

D. H. Lawrence

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

D. H. Lawrence

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

D. H. Lawrence

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

D. H. Lawrence

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

D. H. Lawrence

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

D. H. Lawrence

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.