"Conviction is the conscience of the mind." — Mary Augusta Ward
"Conviction is the conscience of the mind."
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Mary Augusta Ward
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25 Quotes by Mary Augusta Ward
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My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest…
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Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
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Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.
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A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a…
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As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
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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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A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found…
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But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
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But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.
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English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing…
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How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties…
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I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
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