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Irving Kirsch

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WASHINGTON IRVING There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo...
WASHINGTON IRVING There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more elo...
WASHINGTON IRVING To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of ...
IRVING WALLACE As I sat on a sunny bank On Christmas day in the morning I spied three ships come sailing in.
WASHINGTON IRVING I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing bu...
JOHN IRVING There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl...
WASHINGTON IRVING Picture you upon my knee, Just tea two and two for tea.
IRVING CAESAR The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
IRVING BERLIN Wallace Worthington would have reminded Wilbur Larch of someone he might have met at the Channing-Pe...
JOHN IRVING A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity tak...
WASHINGTON IRVING His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.
WASHINGTON IRVING Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Econo...
IRVING FISHER There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with other...
WASHINGTON IRVING The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we...
WASHINGTON IRVING We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favo...
IRVING BABBITT To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice...
IRVING WALLACE A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve...
IRVING BABBITT It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sy...
JOHN IRVING Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity...
WASHINGTON IRVING Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in m...
JOHN IRVING