Washington Irving - Heart Quotes

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There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease.

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

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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.

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And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate.

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I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.

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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.

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Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

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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.

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