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Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.
IRVING BERLIN
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
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
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away a...
WASHINGTON IRVING
One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and som...
KYRIE IRVING
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increa...
IRVING BABBITT
Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one th...
IRVING PENN
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husband...
WASHINGTON IRVING
There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and...
WASHINGTON IRVING