Edgeworth Quotes

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. - Maria Edgeworth

Well, I think that it's always been something we need to review and I'm glad that this administration is willing to take it on. - Elbra Wedgeworth

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, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. - Maria Edgeworth

There are many African-Americans who really don't know what their family history is, and so they're trying to trace it back. This is a mechanism to try to do that. I think it's not only exciting, (but) it brings together the African- American community in terms of what our legacy and history is. - Elbra Wedgeworth

The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards; they will be dissipated, lost and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence. - Marie Edgeworth

The law, in our case, seems to make the right; and the very reverse ought to be done - the right should make the law. - Maria Edgeworth

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. - Maria Edgeworth

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget. - Maria Edgeworth