"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."
― Washington Irving
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More From Washington Irving
- "He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart."
- "The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem."
- "Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home."
More In Great
- "Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand."― Colin Powell
- "All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."― Marya Mannes
- "Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never."― Ralph Waldo Emerson