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Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
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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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
Now flattery can never do good twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
Maria Edgeworth
Business was his aversion Pleasure was his business.
Maria Edgeworth
Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.
Maria Edgeworth
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.
Maria Edgeworth
a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
Maria Edgeworth
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.
Maria Edgeworth
The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
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
every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused they must bear it and their friends must learn to bear it for them.
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
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
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.
Maria Edgeworth
According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.
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
how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
Maria Edgeworth
We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
Maria Edgeworth
Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
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
Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
Maria Edgeworth