Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quotes - Page 2

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• Life is moral responsibility.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Responsibility, Moral, Life Is

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• The woman's personal identity is a vast undiscovered country -- with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it is yet to be revolutionized.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Country, Identity, Personal Identity

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• Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had done so, we can scarcely imagine that He could have offered anything much better in the way of material.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Way, Novelists, Purpose

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• ... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it is comedy, it is psychical and physical pleasure, it is the interplay of a thousand rude or delicate motions and emotions, it is the grimmest and the merriest motley of phantasmagoria that could appeal to the gravest or the maddest brush ever put to palette; but it is steadily and sturdily and always moral responsibility.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Responsibility, Rude, Joy

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• The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Mean, Night, Saddest

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• The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his facts. He is worth to the world just about what he has learned from it, and no more.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Dream, Artist, Imagination

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• I can remember no time when I did not understand that my mother must write books because people would have and read them; but I cannot remember one hour in which her children needed her and did not find her.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Mother, Children, Book

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• The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to study; its extremes of squalor and of splendor do not stimulate, but sadden me; certain phases of its society I profoundly value, but would sacrifice them to the heaven of country quiet, if I had to choose between.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Country, Sleep, Sacrifice

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• It is not in our drawing-rooms that we should look to judge of the intrinsic worth of any style of dress. The street-car is a truer crucible of its inherent value.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Fashion, Drawing, Judging

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• Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Law, Dresses, Attention

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• Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Grateful, Enough, Habit

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• ... it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the smallest possible use; yet for whose sake I have suffered the discomfort attending all action in moral improvements, without the happiness of knowing that this was clearly quite worth while.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Knowing, Luck, Progress

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• Surely it is one of the requisites of a tasteful garb that the expression of effort to please shall be wanting in it; that the mysteries of the toilet shall not be suggested by it; that the steps to its completion shall be knocked away like the sculptor's ladder from the statue, and the mental force expended upon it be swept away out of sight like the chips on the studio floor.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Fashion, Expression, Sight

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