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

Mary Augusta Ward

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Mary Augusta Ward
Age: 68 †
Born: 1851
Born: June 11
Died: 1920
Died: March 24
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Tasmania
Mrs. Humphrey Ward
Mary Augusta Arnold
Mrs. Humphry 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.
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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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I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
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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!
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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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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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Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.
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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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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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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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There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
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To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age.
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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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But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
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One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
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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.
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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.
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But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
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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.
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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.
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