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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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Action
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An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
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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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why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
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Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
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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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Justice satisfies everybody.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
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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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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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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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The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
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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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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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