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. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
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… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
The thoughts and opinions of one human being, if they are sincere, must always have an interest for some other human beings. The world… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
