• There is in every 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.

  Washington Irving
  American writer 1783-1859
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. prosperity
2. adversity
3. kindles
4. blazes
5. spark
6. which

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There is in every 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. by : Washington Irving

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