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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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Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

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Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

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There is no moment like the present.... The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him, can have no hope from them afterward. They will be dissipated, lost in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

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

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth
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Born: January 1, 1768
Died: May 22, 1849 (aged 81)
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