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    I Like this quote I dislike this quoteGreat minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.

 Washington Irving quotes (American Writer called the first American man of letters. Best known for the short stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. 1783-1859)

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quoteThere 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 messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love.

 Washington Irving quotes (American Writer called the first American man of letters. Best known for the short stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. 1783-1859)

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quoteThere 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 quotes (American Writer called the first American man of letters. Best known for the short stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. 1783-1859)

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quoteSometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

 Alexander Graham Bell quotes (Scottish born American Inventor and Educator, best known for the invention of the telephone in 1876. 1847-1922)

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quoteHe is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart

 Washington Irving quotes (American Writer called the first American man of letters. Best known for the short stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. 1783-1859)

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quoteLove is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

 Washington Irving quotes (American Writer called the first American man of letters. Best known for the short stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. 1783-1859)

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quoteAcceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

 William James quotes (American Philosopher and Psychologist, leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism, 1842-1910)

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quoteMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

 Andre Gide quotes (French writer, humanist and moralist, 1947 nobel prize for literature, 1869-1951)

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