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> [What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/what-an-immense-power-over-life-is-the-power-of-possessing-distinct/)

[Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/)

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## More by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

> [The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/the-literary-artist-will-portray-what-he-knows-and-little-else/)

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> [Next to the love between man and his Creator, The love of one man and one woman, Is the loftiest and the most illusive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/next-to-the-love-between-man-and-his-creator-the-love-of-one-man-and/)

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> [What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/what-an-immense-power-over-life-is-the-power-of-possessing-distinct/)

[Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/)

> [Surely it is one of the requisites of a tasteful garb that the expression of effort to please shall be wanting in it; that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/surely-it-is-one-of-the-requisites-of-a-tasteful-garb-that-the/)

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> [To exist as an advertisement of her husband's income, or her father's generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/to-exist-as-an-advertisement-of-her-husband-s-income-or-her-father-s/)

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> [Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/superior-music-is-purity-itself-it-clears-the-air/)

[Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/)

> [... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/to-work-to-work-hard-to-see-work-steadily-and-see-it-whole-was-the/)

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> [Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had done so,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/possibly-the-creator-did-not-make-the-world-chiefly-for-the-purpose/)

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> [It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/it-seems-to-me-that-life-is-always-undoing-for-us-something-that-we/)

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> [It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age… sympathy as a fine art is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/it-is-in-the-comprehension-of-the-physically-disabled-or-disordered/)

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> [The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/the-rainiest-nights-like-the-rainiest-lives-are-by-no-means-the/)

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> [... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/life-is-moral-responsibility-life-is-several-other-things-we-do-not/)

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> [The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/the-great-law-of-denial-belongs-to-the-powerful-forces-of-life/)

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> [Death is not the worst sorrow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/death-is-not-the-worst-sorrow/)

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> [... it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the smallest possible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/it-seems-to-have-been-my-luck-to-stumble-into-various-forms-of/)

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