Mary Augusta Ward Quotes
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It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
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Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
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A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.
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Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
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We all grow on somebody's grave.
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It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
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Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.
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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.
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my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!
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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.
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There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
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There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.
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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.
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But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
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But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
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I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age.
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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!
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Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.
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One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
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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.
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But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.
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For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
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... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.
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All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains.
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Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
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