Maria Edgeworth Quotes - Page 2

• La justicia satisface a todos.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Justicia

  Maria Edgeworth (1867). “Frank”, p.68

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

  Maria Edgeworth

  Two, Lines, Morality

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.306

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• A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.

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  Party, Way

  'Castle Rackrent' (1800) 'Continuation of Memoirs'

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• Un orador es la peor persona para contar un hecho evidente.

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  Speech, Facts, Persons

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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 think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother; ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry.

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  Mother, Daughter, Men

  1812 Count O'Halloran's advice to Lord Colambare. The Absentee, ch.15.

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• sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

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  Children, Opposites, Parent

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.302

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• Tengo muchas ganas de ver mi propio funeral antes de morir.

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  Funeral, Fancy, My Own

  Maria Edgeworth (2005). “Tales and Novels”, p.52

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• The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Lovers, Everlasting, Quotations

  Maria Edgeworth (1850). “Harrington, and thoughts on bores, v. 17-18”

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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.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Libro, Lectura, Pensamiento

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.192

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• It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

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  Heart, Years, Age

  Maria Edgeworth (1855). “Tales and Novels: The absentee (concluded) Madame de Fleury. Emilie de Coulanges. The modern Griselda”, p.62

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• there is no reasoning with imagination.

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  Imagination, Reasoning

  Maria Edgeworth (1823). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823”, p.398

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• Las jóvenes que no piensan en otra cosa que en vestirse, en diversiones públicas y en formar lo que ellas llaman conexiones elevadas, son sin duda las más fáciles de manejar, por el miedo a lo que el mundo dirá de ellas.

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  Thinking, Amusement, Dresses

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.248

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• When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

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  Horizon, Retreat, Illusion

  Maria Edgeworth (1833). “Tales and Novels”, p.320

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• Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Sex, Forgiving, Talent

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.26

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• Algunos hablan de moralidad, y otros de religión, pero a mí que me den un poco de propiedad.

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  Motherhood, Land, People

  'The Absentee' (1812) ch. 2

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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; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.

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  Real, Carácter, Hombres

  Maria Edgeworth “Castle Rackrent”, W. W. Norton & Company

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

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  Hope, Depressing, Fear

  Maria Edgeworth, Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1971). “The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth”, Ayer Company Pub

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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 that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.

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  Book, Thinking, Age

  Maria Edgeworth (1895). “The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth”

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• Es muy apropiado que la caridad comience en casa... pero no debe terminar en casa; porque aquellos que no ayudan a nadie no encontrarán a nadie que los ayude en tiempos de necesidad.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Home, Charity, Needs

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.62

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• When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs; and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.

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  Book, Ideas, Mind

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Harrington. Ormond. 1825”, p.31

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• El hábito es, para las mentes débiles, una especie de predestinación moral, de la que no tienen poder para escapar.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Mind, Moral, Habit

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1823). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Popular tales. 1823”, p.271

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• La ociosidad, el hastío, el ruido, las travesuras, el alboroto y una serie innumerable de nociones erróneas del placer, a menudo se clasifican, en la mente de un joven, bajo la denominación general de libertad.

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  Men, Mind, Liberty

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.198

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• Come when you're called; And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you; And you'll never be chid.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Doors, Obedience

  'The Contrast' (1804) ch. 1

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• Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Sorry, Get Well, Occupation

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1826). “Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825”, p.20

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• The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Sleep, Long, Mouths

  Maria Edgeworth (1848). “Harrington ; Thoughts on bores ; and, Ormond”, p.209

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