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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
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Oxon.
Eliza Edgeworth
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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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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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Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
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We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
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Justice satisfies everybody.
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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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The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
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how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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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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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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When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.
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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 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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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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How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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Confidence is the best proof of love.
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