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We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.

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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Future
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How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm, Have pow'r, or will, to work us harm For those who dare the truth to tell, Fays, elves, and fairies, wish them well.
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There are two sorts of content one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue the other, a vice.
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A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.
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Confidence is the best proof of love.
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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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Did the Warwickshire militia, who were chiefly artisans, teach the Irish to drink beer, or did they learn from the Irish how to drink whiskey?
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Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.
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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.
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why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
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I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
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How success changes the opinion of men!
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What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.
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[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.
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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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there is no reasoning with imagination.
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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
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Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
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