Mary Augusta Ward Quotes

• Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Men, Stories, Found

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• Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Memorable, Creeds

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  People, Helping, Praise

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• Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Christian, Pain, Past

  "Robert Elsmere", Chapter XXVII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 244-45, 1922.

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• A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Stupid, Character, Ideas

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• All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  God, Philosophy, Things Change

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Ideas, Expansion, Infinite

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• There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Elements, Torment, Opposition

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• We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Literature, Realizing, Enough

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• We all grow on somebody's grave.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Generations, Graves, Grows

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• I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Spiritual, Character, Men

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• Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Personality, Slavery, Chains

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• But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Men, Monopoly, Conscience

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• The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Nature, Color, Delight

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• Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Age, Generations, Helping

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• Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  May, Failing, Mischief

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• The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Secret, Alive, Journalism

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• City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Venice, Should Have, Cities

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• English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Girl, Education, Taken

  Mary Augusta Ward (2002). “Marcella”, p.552, Broadview Press

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• For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Marriage, Writing, Fiction

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• Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Mind, Belief, Conviction

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• Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Distance, Shopping, Trout

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• The thoughts and opinions of one human being, if they are sincere, must always have an interest for some other human beings. The world is there to think about; and if we have lived, or are living, with any sort of energy, we must have thought about it, and about ourselves in relation to it - thought 'furiously' often. And it is out of the many 'thinkings' of many folk, strong or weak, dull or far-ranging, that thought itself grows.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Strong, Thinking, Dull

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• Place before your eyes two Precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is--Put down enthusiasm!The Church of England in a nutshell.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Eye, Two, Church

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• I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Education, Boots, University

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