Top 89 Maria Edgeworth Quotes
#1. If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
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#2. A straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
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#3. I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.
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#5. When a man's over head and shoulders in debt, he may live the faster for it, and the better if he goes the right way about it, or else how is it so many live so well, as we see every day after they are ruined?
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#7. If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
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#8. How impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.
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#9. Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain ... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
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#10. No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
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#11. It is sometimes fortunate, that the means which are taken to produce certain effects upon the mind have a tendency directly opposite to what is expected.
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#12. In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.
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#13. Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
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#14. You've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.
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#15. Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.
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#16. Let menot, even inmyownmind, committheinjustice of taking a speck for the whole.
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#20. Out of forty-nine suits which he had, he never lost one but seventeen; the rest he gained with costs, double costs, treble costs sometimes; but even that did not pay.
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#21. When people are warm, they cannot stand picking terms.
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#22. Every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it; and their friends must learn to bear it for them.
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#23. Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
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#24. Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
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#25. The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.
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#26. Did the Warwickshire militia, who were chiefly artisans, teach the Irish to drink beer, or did they learn from the Irish how to drink whiskey?
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#27. So quickly in youth do different and opposite trains of ideas and emotions succeed to each other; and so easy it is, by a timely exercise of reason and self-command, to prevent a fancy from becoming a passion.
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#28. Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
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#30. Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.
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#31. Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.
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#32. The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open.
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#33. We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice ...
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#34. How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?
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#35. Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!
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#36. 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.
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#37. We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
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#38. Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.
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#39. Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made up one's opinions, there is no use in reading.
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#40. There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
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#41. Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
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#42. Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.
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#43. Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.
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#44. Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
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#45. Sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.
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#46. Half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.
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#47. A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.
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#48. Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.
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#49. Belinda is not quite so great a philosopher as I imagined.
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#50. Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.
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#51. The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
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#52. 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.
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#53. 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.
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#54. Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.
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#55. But don't you know that girls never think of what they are talking about, or rather never talk of what they are thinking about? And they have always ten times more to say to the man they don't care for, than to him they do.
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#56. 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.
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#57. 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.
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#58. The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.
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#60. The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
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#61. Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.
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#63. Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.
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#64. Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty.
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#65. Come when you're called; And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you; And you'll never be chid.
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#66. 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.
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#67. A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.
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#68. Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.
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#69. Tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.
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#72. It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.
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#73. What a treasure, to meet with any thing a new heart
all hearts, nowadays, are secondhand at best.
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#75. 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.
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#76. We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.
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#77. 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.
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#78. Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.
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#79. First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.
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#80. The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
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#81. [On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets ...
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#82. Nor elves, nor fays, nor magic charm, Have pow'r, or will, to work us harm; For those who dare the truth to tell, Fays, elves, and fairies, wish them well.
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#83. Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.
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#85. Why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?
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#86. According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.
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#87. 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.
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#88. The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law.
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#89. When driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.
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