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.
Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action. - Maria Edgeworth
Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.
- Maria Edgeworth
The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return. - Maria Edgeworth
The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.
half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow. - Maria Edgeworth
half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.
If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much. - Maria Edgeworth
If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.
We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present. - Maria Edgeworth
We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget. - Maria Edgeworth
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics. - Maria Edgeworth
a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
Confidence is the best proof of love. - Maria Edgeworth
Confidence is the best proof of love.
We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice. - Maria Edgeworth
We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.
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