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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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by Emerson Hough - 1909 - 402 pages
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What Can a Woman Do: Or, Her Position in the Business and Literary World

Martha Louise Rayne - 1885 - 578 pages
...behaving well in adversity. They show then that in the vainest and most frivolous heart " there is a spark of heavenly fire which beams and blazes in the dark hours of adversity." " Women are in their natures far more gay and joyous than men, whether it be that their blood is more...
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Young Ladies' Illustrated Reader

1889 - 466 pages
...and fervent sympathies of her nature ; for she will rejoice to prove that she loves you for yourself. 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...
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Manford's Magazine, Volume 34

1890 - 828 pages
...most gentlemanly thing of the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant. — Coleridge. THERE is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly...which beams and blazes in the dark hours of adversity. — W. Irving. IN LIGHTER VEIN. A COUNTRY-SEAT that always rents — The barbed-wire fence. A JERSEY...
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A Stem Dictionary of the English Language: For Use in Elementary Schools

John Kennedy - 1890 - 304 pages
...; And singing, while the accordant hand Sweeps his harp, the Master rides.— Wordsworth. (Arion.) 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...
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Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs: Authors ...

1891 - 556 pages
...Woman is the lesser man. Tennyson. Woman is something between a flower and an angel. DEVOTEDNESS OF. There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly...which beams and blazes in the dark hours of adversity. W. Irving. DUTIES OP. The modest virgin, the prudent wife, or the careful matron, are much more serviceable...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gentn. [pseud.]

Washington Irving - 1892 - 422 pages
...and fervent sympathies of her nature ; for she will rejoice to prove that she loves you for yourself. 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...
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Woman in Epigram: Flashes of Wit, Wisdom, and Satire from the World's Literature

Frederick William Morton - 1894 - 224 pages
...is almost always women who have given the strongest proofs of virtue and devotion. COUNT MONTHOLON. THERE is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly...in the dark hours of adversity. WASHINGTON IRVING. A WOMAN is never displeased if we please several other women, provided she is preferred. It is so many...
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Selections from the Sketch Book

Washington Irving - 1894 - 234 pages
...and fervent sympathies of her nature ; for she will rejoice to prove that she loves you for yourself. 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...
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The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent

Washington Irving - 1848 - 482 pages
...and fervent sympathies of her nature ; for she will rejoice to prove that she loves you for yourself. 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...
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Good Housekeeping Magazine, Volume 23

1896 - 300 pages
...almost always women who have given the strongest proofs of virtue and devotion. — Count Montholon. There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly...the dark hours of adversity. — Washington Irving. There are plenty of women who believe women to be incapable of anything but to cook, incapable of interest...
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