Mary Augusta Ward Quotes - Page 2

• Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Mind, Belief, Conviction

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• One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  May, Mythology, Wells

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

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• I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Teacher, Children, Clever

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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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• 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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• 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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• Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Thinking, Mind, Doe

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• There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Strong, People, Weakness

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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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• But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Sleep, Mind

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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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• 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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• It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Average, World, Files

  Mary Augusta Ward (2002). “Marcella”, p.553, Broadview Press

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• my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Art, Firsts, Thirds

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• Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Growing Up, Biblical, Years

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• The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Christian, Teacher, Joy

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• But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Girl, Summer, Book

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• We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Real, Women, Government

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• In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Trust, Art, Choices

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• It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Marriage, Partnership

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• My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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