Maria Edgeworth Quotes

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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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• We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Thinking, Prejudice, Opinion

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.145

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• Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Hope, Spring, Action

  Maria Edgeworth (1894). “The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth”

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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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• Confidence is the best proof of love.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Proof Of Love, Proof

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1826). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825”, p.426

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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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• Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Health, Making Money

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.173

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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.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Two, Lines, Morality

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.306

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• We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Use, May, Moments

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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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• 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

  Mother, Daughter, Men

  1812 Count O'Halloran's advice to Lord Colambare. The Absentee, ch.15.

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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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• 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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• 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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• I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Funeral, Fancy, My Own

  Maria Edgeworth (2005). “Tales and Novels”, p.52

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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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• 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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• 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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• Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Forgiveness, Forgive And Forget, Forgiving

  Maria Edgeworth (1832). “Castle Rackrent: And Irish Bulls”, p.303

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• It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.

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  May, Imagine, Easy

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.227

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• Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Aversion, Pleasure

  'The Contrast' (1804) ch. 2

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• It sometimes requires courage to fly from danger.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Courage, Sometimes, Danger

  Maria Edgeworth (1848). “Forester. The Prussian vase. The good aunt. Angelina. The good French governess. Mademoiselle Panache. The knapsack”, p.380

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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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• 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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