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How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?

Maria Edgeworth

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Maria Edgeworth
Age: 81 †
Born: 1768
Born: January 1
Died: 1849
Died: May 22
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
Excites
Faculties
Depressing
Faculty
Absolutely
Hope
Fear
Depresses
Powerfully

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There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
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According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.
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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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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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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.
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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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Confidence is the best proof of love.
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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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a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
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why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
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If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
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Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
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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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[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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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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How success changes the opinion of men!
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Justice satisfies everybody.
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Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
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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 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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