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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

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

Washington Irving
Mother, Heart, Son
Washington Irving (2013). “The Sketch Book Of Geoffrey Crayon”, p.111, Jazzybee Verlag

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

Washington Irving
Heart, Imagination, Perception
Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more”, p.258, e-artnow

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

Washington Irving
Christmas, Thank You, Heart

He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero.

Washington Irving
Hero, Heart, Winning
Washington Irving (1834). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume”, p.337

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.

Washington Irving
Heart, Ambition, Adventure
Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author”, p.246

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
Thank You, Heart, Ease
Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author”, p.288

The youthful freshness of a blameless heart.

Washington Irving
Heart, Youth, Freshness

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

Washington Irving
Writing, Heart, May
Washington Irving (2014). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.91, Penguin

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

Washington Irving
Heart, Unhappy, Abandoned
Washington Irving (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)”, p.75, Delphi Classics

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

Washington Irving
Heart, Matter, Admiration
Washington Irving (1834). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving in One Volume”, p.337

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.

Washington Irving
Heart, Mind, Criticism
Washington Irving (1999). “Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.64, Penguin

If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart of one moment of sadness; if I can, how and then, prompt a happier view of human nature, and make my reader more in good humor with his fellow-beings and himself, surely, I shall not have written in vain.

Washington Irving
Inspirational Life, Sadness, Heart

As the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils and bind up its shattered boughs, so is it beautifully ordered by Providence that woman, who is the mere dependent and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with sudden calamity, winding herself into the rugged recesses of his nature, tenderly supporting the drooping head, and binding up the broken heart.

Washington Irving
Women, Heart, Sunshine
Washington Irving (2015). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)”, p.30, e-artnow

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