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Ein bellender Hund nützt oft mehr als ein schlafender Löwe.
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Schriftsteller, gewann als erster Autor Amerikas mit "Gottfried Crayons Skizzenbuch" Beachtung (USA, 1783 - 1859).
Washington Irving · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Washington Irving wäre heute 241 Jahre, 1 Monat, 0 Tage oder 88.054 Tage alt.
Geboren am 03.04.1783 in New York
Gestorben am 28.11.1859 in Tarrytown/New York
Sternzeichen: ♈ Widder
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Weitere 33 Zitate von Washington Irving
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Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former flow and pageant.
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Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment.
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The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land.
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The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion.
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The dullest observer must be sensible of the order and serenity prevalent in those households where the occasional exercise of a beautiful form of worship in the morning gives, as it were, the keynote to every temper for the day, and attunes every spirit to harmony.
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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stage coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.
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There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitalitiy which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease.
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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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They who drink beer will think beer.
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Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot?
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Le changement, même si c'est de mal en pis, apporte un certain soulagement; en voyageant en diligence, je me suis apperçu qu'il valait mieux changer de position pour avoir des bleus en un autre endroit.
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Les grands esprits ont de grands desseins, les autres ont seulement des vux.
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