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Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.
Maria Edgeworth
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Maria Edgeworth
Age: 81 †
Born: 1768
Born: January 1
Died: 1849
Died: May 22
Essayist
Novelist
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Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
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We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.
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A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.
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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.
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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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Now flattery can never do good twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
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every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused they must bear it and their friends must learn to bear it for them.
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First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.
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It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
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We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.
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An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
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Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
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Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
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