May Quote by Maria Edgeworth

“We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.” quote by Maria Edgeworth — Download Open image

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

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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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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 opinions, there is no use in reading.

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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 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,…

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So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has set before us is not to see if we can endure difficulty. It is to see if we can endure it well. We pass the test by showing that we remembered Him and the commandments He…

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the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.

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Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get a grip on this town. It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. But you must stop being so pessimistic, Hannah, and learn…

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She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to volunteer the story, she realized, and she could just as easily choose to say nothing. But he deserved to know. They all deserved it, and Kirra already knew it, and Cammon may have guessed it, because…

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