Maria Edgeworth Quote Explained: Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

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Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!

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· Ireland

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We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.

- Maria Edgeworth

Writer

· Ireland

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

- Maria Edgeworth

Writer

· Ireland

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Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.

- Maria Edgeworth

Writer

· Ireland

Curious
Wit

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Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.

- Maria Edgeworth

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· Ireland

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

- Maria Edgeworth

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· Ireland

Party

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when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

- Maria Edgeworth

Writer

· Ireland

Driven

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It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.

- Maria Edgeworth

Writer

· Ireland

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Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!

We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.

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

Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.

Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.

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

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

It is not so easy to do good as those who have never attempted it may imagine.

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain

The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. Explain

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain

The laws of art are eternal and don’t change at all, as the moral laws don’t change in human beings.

Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.

I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

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