Mary Augusta Ward Quotes

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

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Men, Stories, Found

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• Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Memorable, Creeds

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  People, Helping, Praise

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• We all grow on somebody's grave.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Generations, Graves, Grows

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• Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.

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  May, Failing, Mischief

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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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  Espiritual, Carácter, Hombres

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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!

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Age, Generations, Helping

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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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  Ideas, Expansion, Infinite

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• Hay un elemento tiránico en todo fanatismo, un elemento que convierte la oposición en un tormento.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Elements, Torment, Opposition

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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

  Nature, Color, Delight

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• All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  God, Philosophy, Things Change

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• ... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  May, Moments, Morrow

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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

  Christian, Pain, Past

  "Robert Elsmere", Chapter XXVII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 244-45, 1922.

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• Pero ningún hombre tiene el monopolio de la conciencia.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Men, Monopoly, Conscience

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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

  Literature, Realizing, Enough

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• Víctima de ciertas formas oscuras de gota, su carácter no era estúpido ni inhumano, pero padecía los inconvenientes habituales de su clase: demasiado dinero y muy pocas ideas.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Stupid, Character, Ideas

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• Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Personality, Slavery, Chains

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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

  Littles, Today, Lasts

  Mary Augusta Ward (2002). “Marcella”, p.552, Broadview Press

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• ¡Ciudad del descanso! - ¿Cómo es posible que una vida tan ajetreada, tan despiadada y codiciosa como la que nos muestra la historia haya contribuido a la creación y a la formación de Venecia?

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Venice, Should Have, Cities

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• English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Girl, Education, Taken

  Mary Augusta Ward (2002). “Marcella”, p.552, Broadview Press

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• To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Jesus, Special, Age

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• A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

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  Girl, Country, School

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• One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  May, Mythology, Wells

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Years, Intellectual, Training

  Mary Augusta Ward (2002). “Marcella”, p.552, Broadview Press

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• I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Interesting, Very Interesting

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