Maria Edgeworth Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

• 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

  Daughter, Self, Practice

  'An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification' (1787)

• 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.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Two, Contentment, Firsts

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.169

• Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Mind, Moral, Habit

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1823). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823”, p.271

• half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Procrastination, Frustrated, Half

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1823). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823”, p.363

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