Mary Augusta Ward Quotes

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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…
• Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
• Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.
• 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…
• As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
• But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
• 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…
• But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
• But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.
• 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…
• 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…
• I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
• 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…
• Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
• Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
• The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.
• 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…
• It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
• For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
• In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of…

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