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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.

Maria Edgeworth

Inspirational, Depressing, Anticipation

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.346

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The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.

Maria Edgeworth

Love, Life, Heart

Maria Edgeworth (1837). “Helen, etc”, p.52

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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.

Maria Edgeworth

Belief, Trouble, Young

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.373

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What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.

Maria Edgeworth

Light, Darkness, Rays

1806 Leonora, letter 1.

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Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

Maria Edgeworth

Class, Arguing, Reason

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.33

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In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.

Maria Edgeworth

Friendship, Real, Party

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.52

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Nature knows best, and she says, roar!

Maria Edgeworth

Pain, Knows

Maria Edgeworth (1848). “Tales and novels: in 9 volumes”, p.265

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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.

Maria Edgeworth

Confidence, Laughter, Men

Maria Edgeworth (1832). “Tales of Fashionable Life: The absentee, ch. 6-17”, p.146

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Young ladies who think of nothing but dress, public amusements, and forming what they call high connexions, are undoubtedly most easily managed, by the fear of what the world will say of them.

Maria Edgeworth

Thinking, Amusement, Dresses

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.248

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wit is often its own worst enemy.

Maria Edgeworth

Worst Enemy, Enemy, Wit

Maria Edgeworth (1857). “Harrington. Thoughts on bores. Ormond”, p.225

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My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she was so afraid that I should ever do a foolish thing, or not say a wise one, that she prompted my every word, and guided my every action. So I grew up, seeing with her eyes, hearing with her ears, and judging with her understanding, till, at length, it was found out that I had not eyes, ears or understanding of my own.

Maria Edgeworth

Wise, Mother, Eye

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1826). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825”, p.2

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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

Sex, Forgiving, Talent

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.26

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Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.

Maria Edgeworth

People, Judging, Remember

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1826). “Works”, p.329

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Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.

Maria Edgeworth

Giving, Promise, Dangerous

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1826). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825”, p.270

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Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

Maria Edgeworth

Motherhood, Land, People

'The Absentee' (1812) ch. 2

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tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

Maria Edgeworth

Injustice, Produce, Tyranny

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.8

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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.

Maria Edgeworth

Home, Charity, Needs

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.62

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The labor of thinking was so great to me, that having once come to a conclusion upon any subject, I would rather persist in it, right or wrong, than be at the trouble of going over the process again to revise and rectify my judgment.

Maria Edgeworth

Thinking, Judgment, Trouble

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.33

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sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

Maria Edgeworth

Children, Opposites, Parent

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.302

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... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.

Maria Edgeworth

Fall, Confusion, Use

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Letters to literary ladies. Castle Rackrent. Leonora. Essay on Irish bulls. 1824”, p.40

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Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

Maria Edgeworth

Passion, Moments, Natural

Maria Edgeworth (1811). “Almeria; a Tale of fashionable life”, p.29

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When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

Maria Edgeworth

Horizon, Retreat, Illusion

Maria Edgeworth (1833). “Tales and Novels”, p.320

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Alarmed successively by every fashionable medical terror of the day, she dosed her children with every specific which was publicly advertised or privately recommended...The consequence was, that the dangers, which had at first been imaginary, became real: these little victims of domestic medicine never had a day's health: they looked, and were, more dead than alive.

Maria Edgeworth

Children, Real, Medicine

"Tales and Novels". Book by Maria Edgeworth, vol. 14, p. 245, 1843.

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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.

Maria Edgeworth

Heart, Years, Age

Maria Edgeworth (1855). “Tales and Novels: The absentee (concluded) Madame de Fleury. Emilie de Coulanges. The modern Griselda”, p.62

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Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.

Maria Edgeworth

Pain, Unnecessary, Teach

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Modern Griselda. Moral tales. 1825”, p.83

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Born: January 1, 1768
Died: May 22, 1849
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