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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Lovers, Everlasting, Quotations

  Maria Edgeworth (1850). “Harrington, and thoughts on bores, v. 17-18”

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

  Maria Edgeworth

  May, Imagine, Easy

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

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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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• 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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• 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

  Book, Ideas, Mind

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Harrington. Ormond. 1825”, p.31

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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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