Washington Irving quote: "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."

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal...
WASHINGTON IRVING

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad ...
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There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in tra...
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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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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There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad dayligh...
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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly...
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shr...
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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 woman's life is a history of the affections.
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The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability ...
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I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
WASHINGTON IRVING

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their...
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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no busi...
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with cons...
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They who drink beer will think beer.
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A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity t...
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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
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In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinio...
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The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.
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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveli...
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be suppla...
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we...
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There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
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The great British Library -- one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern a...
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with other...
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Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No -- no, your lea...
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo...
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As I sat on a sunny bank On Christmas day in the morning I spied three ships come sailing in.
WASHINGTON IRVING

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl...
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A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity tak...
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His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with other...
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we...
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity...
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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away a...
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A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husband...
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and...
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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
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A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener wi...
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After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinate...
WASHINGTON IRVING

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other lands...
WASHINGTON IRVING

History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription moulders...
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Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
WASHINGTON IRVING

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
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Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great ...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Falling in love with someone isn't always going to be easy... Anger... tears... laughter.. It's when...
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The idol of to-day pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection, and will, in turn, be supp...
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A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husban...
WASHINGTON IRVING

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity ta...
WASHINGTON IRVING

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
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A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener wi...
WASHINGTON IRVING

A father may turn his back on his child, . but a mother's love endures through all.
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Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think...
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The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; a...
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. ...
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambitio...
WASHINGTON IRVING

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayli...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but...
WASHINGTON IRVING

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in t...
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The moon of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger o...
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Ay, go to the grave of buried love and meditate! There settle the account with thy conscience for ev...
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It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were ...
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After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinate...
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo...
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(Man's) history is a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin
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Christmas! 'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of char...
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Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the ey...
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A woman's life is a history of the affections
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It is, indeed, the season of regenerated feeling--the season for kindling, not merely the fire of ho...
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The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land.
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with other...
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After a man passes sixty, his mischief is mainly in his head
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A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
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I've learned that good-byes will always hurt, pictures will never replace having been there, memorie...
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All our lives we search for someone who makes us complete. We choose partners and change partners. W...
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloqu...
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God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise ...
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Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.
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The great British Library -- one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern a...
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There is one in the world who feels for him who is sad a keener pang than he feels for himself; ther...
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My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.
WASHINGTON IRVING

It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest pla...
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition ...
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Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean,...
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True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
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I love walking in the rain, 'cause then no-one knows I'm crying.
WASHINGTON IRVING

The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly;...
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It is impossible to fall out of love. Love is such a powerful emotion, that once it envelops you it ...
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I profess not to know how women’s hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of...
WASHINGTON IRVING

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. -Wash...
WASHINGTON IRVING

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl...
WASHINGTON IRVING

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supp...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; b...
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Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.
WASHINGTON IRVING

Here's to your good health, and your family's good health, and may you all live long and prosper.
WASHINGTON IRVING

Love is like grass. If you fall on it, it may leave a stain and some temporary pain. But youll get...
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The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of whic...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think...
WASHINGTON IRVING

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal...
WASHINGTON IRVING

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

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in tra...
WASHINGTON IRVING

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; a...
WASHINGTON IRVING

There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard
WASHINGTON IRVING

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

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No -- no, your lean...
WASHINGTON IRVING

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
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There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the ling...
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Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the ey...
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The grate had been removed from the wide overwhelming fireplace, to make way for a fire of wood, in ...
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Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast any...
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use
WASHINGTON IRVING

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other lands...
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May the love hidden deep inside your heart find the love waiting in your dreams. May the laughter th...
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Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard d...
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. . . he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his ...
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind...
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Con tal disposición y determinación, ¡qué país es éste para el viajero, donde la más mísera ...
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...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselv...
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My object is merely to give the reader a general introduction into an abode where, if so disposed, h...
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Perhaps there never was a monument more characteristic of an age and people than the Alhambra; a rug...
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I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of r...
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He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination...
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Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irri...
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Balt Van Tassel was an easy indulgent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, li...
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Photographing a cake can be art.
IRVING PENN

I love the gym; I love basketball. I'm really passionate about it.
KYRIE IRVING

Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.
IRVING THALBERG

A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
IRVING THALBERG

The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest ...
IRVING THALBERG

Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
IRVING THALBERG

Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
IRVING THALBERG

Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his...
IRVING STONE

The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development...
IRVING STONE

The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the fa...
IRVING STONE

I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to s...
IRVING STONE

In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five ye...
IRVING STONE

My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a visi...
IRVING STONE

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
IRVING STONE

I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the inte...
IRVING STONE

I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the reli...
IRVING STONE

I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was c...
IRVING STONE

There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you...
IRVING STONE

Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his...
IRVING STONE

I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried ...
IRVING PENN

Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, prepar...
IRVING PENN

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
IRVING PENN

I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to ta...
IRVING PENN

Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like i...
IRVING PENN

I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to...
IRVING PENN

I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius...
IRVING PENN

Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.
IRVING PENN

Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue....
IRVING PENN

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously inter...
IRVING PENN

I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photogra...
IRVING PENN

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
IRVING LAYTON

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and K...
IRVING LAYTON

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, t...
IRVING LAYTON

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its...
IRVING KRISTOL

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
IRVING KRISTOL

Perhaps anti-depressants should be best reserved for the very extreme cases and, more importantly, f...
IRVING KIRSCH

If doctors just spent more time with their patients so they felt more reassured, that might help.
IRVING KIRSCH

There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depre...
IRVING KIRSCH

If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effec...
IRVING KIRSCH

Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigge...
IRVING KIRSCH

Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that ...
IRVING KIRSCH

Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the...
IRVING KIRSCH

Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
IRVING KIRSCH

There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we ...
IRVING KIRSCH

Psychotherapy works, and some types of therapy have been shown to be much more effective than antide...
IRVING KIRSCH

The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect.
IRVING KIRSCH

To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first -...
IRVING KIRSCH

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of...
IRVING HOWE

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
IRVING HOWE

I never sold any of my pieces. I had all the money I wanted. Then I would have lost my sculptures an...
IRVING HARPER

I don't have a complex mind.
IRVING HARPER

At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
IRVING HARPER

With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if ...
IRVING HARPER

The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
IRVING FISHER

There's no people like show people.
IRVING BERLIN

After you get what you want you don't want it.
IRVING BERLIN

I got lost but look what I found.
IRVING BERLIN

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
IRVING BERLIN

There's no business like show business.
IRVING BERLIN

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
IRVING BERLIN

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
IRVING BERLIN

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
IRVING BABBITT

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
IRVING BABBITT

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself...
IRVING BABBITT

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficul...
IRVING BABBITT

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
IRVING BABBITT

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.

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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.

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