a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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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