Amelia B. Edwards Quotes

• Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Literature, Leisure, Fruit

  Amelia B. Edwards (2011). “Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers”, p.193, Cambridge University Press

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• It is so easy to believe in pleasant impossibilities.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Believe, Easy, Pleasant

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• It may be said of some very old places, as of some very old books, that they are destined to be forever new. The nearer we approach them, the more remote they seem: the more we study them, the more we have yet to learn. Time augments rather than diminishes their everlasting novelty; and to our descendants of a thousand years hence it may safely be predicted that they will be even more fascinating than to ourselves. This is true of many ancient lands, but of no place is it. so true as of Egypt.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Book, Science, Egypt

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• The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  People, World, Valuation

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• Every reformation ruins somebody.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Reform, Ruins, Reformation

  Amelia B. Edwards (1865). “Half a Million of Money”, p.241

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• Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Love, Powerful, Memories

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• The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Lying, Camels, Virtue

  Amelia B. Edwards (2008). “A Thousand Miles Up the Nile: Fully Illustrated Second Edition”, p.186, Norton Creek Press

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• between prosperity and adversity there can be little real fellowship.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Real, Adversity, Littles

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• Of all the trees that have ever been cultivated by man, the genealogical tree is the driest. It is one, we may be sure, that had no place in the garden of Eden. Its root is in the grave; its produce mere Dead Sea fruit.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Men, Garden, Roots

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• It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Egypt, Said, Facade

  Amelia B. Edwards (2011). “Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers”, p.5, Cambridge University Press

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• Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Art, Knowledge, Science

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