Thinking Quotes by Maria Edgeworth

8 Thinking quotes by Maria Edgeworth

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Maria Edgeworth’s eight lines on thinking showcase her keen observational eye, delivering brief yet elegant thoughts that echo her prose style.

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Books only spoil the originality of genius. Very well for those who can't think for themselves - But when one has made…

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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…

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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,…

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“But don't you know that girls never think of what they are talking about, or rather never talk of what they are…

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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…

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

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Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think…

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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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There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,…

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

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An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

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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…

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“I can but just recollect having been amused at the Theatres, and the Opera, and the Pantheon, and Ranelagh, and all those places, for…

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Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

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Justice satisfies everybody.

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How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?

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Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

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Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.

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

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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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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…

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We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public;…

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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.

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