Washington Irving quote: There is a certain relief in change, even

“The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.”

Mind Heart Spirit Criticism Sensitive Pens Slander Pierce Collision Trifling

Book:Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

Source: Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

“The Englishman is too apt to neglect the present good in preparing against the possible evil.”

Evil Neglect Preparing Englishmen

Book:The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine

Source: The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine

“To occupy an inch of dusty shelf-to have the title of their works read now and then in a future age by some drowsy churchman or casual straggler, and in another age to be lost, even to remembrance. Such is the amount of boasted immortality.”

Age Lost Amount Titles Immortality Inches Now And Then Remembrance Shelves Casual Drowsy

Book:Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

Source: Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

“No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.”

Knows Men World Marriage Gone Wife This World Trials Bosoms Fiery

Book:The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more

Source: The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more

“The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced.”

Sorrow Refuse Mourning Cherish Affliction Divorced

Book:The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author

Source: The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author

“Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trespass on that of others, whereas nothing is so offensive as the aspirings of vulgarity which thinks to elevate itself by humiliating its neighbor.”

Wells Standing Reputation Assured

Author:Washington Irving

“Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue.”

May Littles Enough Whole Evil Hours Sin Space Virtue Fame Tongue Whole Life Blast Slander

Book:The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more

Source: The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more

“One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right.”

Truth Certain Truth Is Agree Jurors

Book:The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more

Source: The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more

“It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense.”

Two War Nations Produce Ill Offense Hostility Ill Will Two Nations

Book:The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book

Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book

“Some people collect paperweights, or pre-Columbian figures, or old masters, or young mistresses, or tombstone rubbings, or five-minute recipes, or any of a thousand other things... My own collection is sunrises; and I find that they have their advantages. Sunrises are usually handsome, they can't possibly be dusted, and they take only a little room, so long as it has a window to see them from.”

People Littles Long Young My Own Rooms Five Minutes Figures Masters Thousand Advantage Window Collections Sunrise Hobbies Recipes Handsome Five Minutes Mistress Tombstone

Author:Peg Bracken

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