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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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Mary Augusta Ward
Age: 68 †
Born: 1851
Born: June 11
Died: 1920
Died: March 24
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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 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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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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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!
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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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It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
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Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.
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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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There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
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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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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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But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
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But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
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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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To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age.
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Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
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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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praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.
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