Quote by Washington Irving
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevat

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. – Washington Irving

Other quotes by Washington Irving

The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value. – Washington Irving

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Books
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. – Washington Irving

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Love
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. – Washington Irving

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Heres my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then theres this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering. – Carl Hiaasen

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I never ask for mercy and seek no ones sympathy. – Conrad Black

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Sympathy

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of ones soul. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Sympathy

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. – William Blake

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I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didnt like me. I guess I wasnt a certain type. – Leelee Sobieski

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Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. – William Cowper

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