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Mary Augusta Ward Inspirational Quotes (33)

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How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
Mary Augusta Ward
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.
Mary Augusta Ward
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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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There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
Mary Augusta Ward
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