Washington Irving Socks

Description: Washington Irving: a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Description: Washington Irving quote: 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.

Description: Washington Irving quote: “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.”

Description: Washington Irving: I am therefore a ready believer in relics, legends, and local anecdotes of goblins and great men, and would advise all travellers who travel for their gratification to be the same. What is it to us whether these stories be true or false, so long as we can persuade ourselves into the belief of them and enjoy all the charm of the reality?

Description: Washington Irving

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Description: Washington Irving quote: Perhaps there never was a monument more characteristic of an age and people than the Alhambra; a rugged fortress without, a voluptuous palace within; war frowning from its battlements; poetry breathing throughout the fairy architecture of its halls.

Description: Washington Irving: “For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as valuable to me as a hero of history that existed a thousand years ago.”

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Description: Washington Irving quote: 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.

Description: Washington Irving: There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

Description: Washington Irving: “There is nothing in this world so hard to get at as truth, and there is nothing in this world but truth that I care for.”

Description: Washington Irving quote: There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

Description: Washington Irving quote: “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a 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.”

Description: Washington Irving quote: Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody.

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Description: Washington Irving: “A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.”

Description: Washington Irving quote: The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.

Description: Washington Irving: Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.

Description: Washington Irving quote: Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

Description: Washington Irving quote: There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.

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

Description: Washington Irving quote: The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.

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

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

Description: Washington Irving quote: 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.

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

Description: Washington Irving quote: 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.

Description: Washington Irving quote: Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

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Description: A quote by W. Irving in the collections of Authors and Written Word at my store in Redbubble.

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Description: A spooky design I made for Halloween of The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow

Description: Beware the galloping phantom as he crosses the haunted wooden bridge near the old churchyard! Celebrate incredible American folklore and legendary ghost stories with this spectacularly vibrant fine art homage.