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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.

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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Mrs. Humphrey Ward
Mary Augusta Arnold
Mrs. Humphry Ward
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praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.
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Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
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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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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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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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Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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