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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.
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
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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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my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!
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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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But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
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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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But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.
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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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Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
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But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
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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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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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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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Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.
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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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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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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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There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
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Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.
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Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.
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One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
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