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. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
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 afterward: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
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… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
“I can but just recollect having been amused at the Theatres, and the Opera, and the Pantheon, and Ranelagh, and all those places, for… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties? — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
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… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public;… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share
