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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

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
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Hope
Action
Springs
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Permanent

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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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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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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother and yet a prudent man, when he begins to think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry.
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Obtain power, then, by all means power is the law of man make it yours.
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How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
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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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why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's opinions, there is no use in reading.
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The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
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How success changes the opinion of men!
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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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