Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to boast an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks - a delicious kind of cake, at present scarce known in this city, except in genuine Dutch families.

Washington Irving

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There 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 the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

Washington Irving

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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Washington Irving

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A mother is the truest friend we have.

Washington Irving

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The love of a mother is never exhausted. It never changes - it never tires - it endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute. In the face of the world's condemnation, a mother's love still lives on.

Washington Irving

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A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

Washington Irving

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There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart

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There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.

Washington Irving

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Washington Irving

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There 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

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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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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Washington Irving

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It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

Washington Irving

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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

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I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with a clean page, a new theme, and a mind awake.

Washington Irving

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The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

Washington Irving

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Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.

Washington Irving

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The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

Washington Irving

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A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Washington Irving

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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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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.

Washington Irving

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