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Quote by Washington Irving
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of th

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. – Washington Irving

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The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible. – Washington Irving

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Writing
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Washington Irving
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. – Washington Irving

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Age
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. – William Cowper

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As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. – Alcibiades

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Goodbye

Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it’s one day further from the last time you saw each other, it’s one day closer to the next time you will. – Author Unknown

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A goodbye isn’t painful unless you’re never going to say hello again. – Author Unknown

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For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? – Thomas Carlyle

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Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period. – Francis Parker Yockey

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Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice. – Charles T. Sprading, Freedom and its Fundamentals

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Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. James 1:4 – Bible

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