Maria Edgeworth - Hope Quotes

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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.

Maria Edgeworth

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

Maria Edgeworth

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

Maria Edgeworth

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.

Maria Edgeworth

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

Maria Edgeworth