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There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly. ↗

— John Irving

#constantly #necessity #no reason #reason #revise

I never joined the army for patriotic reasons. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

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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

#deep #eloquently #grief #love #mark

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

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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

#beams #blazes #broad #dark #daylight

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

— Washington Irving

#above #great minds #little #little minds #minds

I get called an adrenaline junkie every other minute, and I'm just fine with that. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#called #every #fine #get #i

There is in every 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

#beams #blazes #broad #dark #daylight

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

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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love. ↗

— Washington Irving

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