{"author":"Washington Irving","author_id":"Washington+Irving","total_quotes":64,"quotes":[{"text":"Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.","author":"Washington Irving","tags":["love","kindness","relationship "],"id":2990,"author_id":"Washington+Irving"},{"text":"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness  but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief. . . And unspeakable love.","author":"Washington Irving","tags":["heartbreak"],"id":7695,"author_id":"Washington+Irving"},{"text":"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.","author":"Washington Irving","tags":["love","heart","love is "],"id":21532,"author_id":"Washington+Irving"},{"text":"Some minds seem almost to create themselves  springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.","author":"Washington Irving","tags":["adversity"],"id":29400,"author_id":"Washington+Irving"},{"text":"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. ","author":"Washington Irving","tags":["enemy","natural","harm "],"id":35894,"author_id":"Washington+Irving"},{"text":"Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. ","author":"Washington Irving","tags":["christmas"],"id":37670,"author_id":"Washington+Irving"},{"text":"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love.","author":"Washington Irving","tags":["grief","love","power","tears"],"id":43068,"author_id":"Washington+Irving"},{"text":"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.","author":"Washington Irving","tags":["women"],"id":50620,"author_id":"Washington+Irving"},{"text":"No! No! My engagement is with no bride--the worms! The worms expect me! I am a dead man--I have been slain by robbers--my body lies at Wurtzburg--at midnight I am to be buried--the grave is waiting for me--I must keep my appointment!","author":"Washington Irving","tags":["burial","dead","death","ghost","the-specter-bridegroom","the-spectre-bridegroom","washington-irving","worms"],"id":51507,"author_id":"Washington+Irving"},{"text":"My object is merely to give the reader a general introduction into an abode where, if so disposed, he may linger and loiter with me day by day until we gradually become familiar with all its localities.","author":"Washington Irving","tags":["palace","spain"],"id":56734,"author_id":"Washington+Irving"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":64,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}