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Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
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
Pleasure
Business
Aversion
More quotes by Maria Edgeworth
We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
Maria Edgeworth
I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.
Maria Edgeworth
why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
Maria Edgeworth
Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be 'soonmoved withtheslightesttouch of blame' very little precept and practice will confirm them in the habit, and instruct them all the maxims, of self-justification.
Maria Edgeworth
Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
Maria Edgeworth
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.
Maria Edgeworth
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.
Maria Edgeworth
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?
Maria Edgeworth
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.
Maria Edgeworth
Obtain power, then, by all means power is the law of man make it yours.
Maria Edgeworth
How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
Maria Edgeworth
Beauty is a great gift of heaven not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.
Maria Edgeworth
Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
Maria Edgeworth
Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.
Maria Edgeworth
Justice satisfies everybody.
Maria Edgeworth
The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
Maria Edgeworth
Confidence is the best proof of love.
Maria Edgeworth
Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
Maria Edgeworth
Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
Maria Edgeworth
Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.
Maria Edgeworth