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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
But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
— Mary Augusta Ward
My credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!
— Mary Augusta Ward
I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
— Mary Augusta Ward
Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
— Mary Augusta Ward
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
— Mary Augusta Ward
It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
— Mary Augusta Ward
Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.
— Mary Augusta Ward
Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?
— Mary Augusta Ward
The strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.
— Mary Augusta Ward
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
— Mary Augusta Ward
To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age ...
— Mary Augusta Ward
It would be a duty that I would seek to fulfill all the nights I am upon this earth. Mary
— J.R. Ward
There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
— Mary Augusta Ward
There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.
— Mary Augusta Ward
All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains.
— Mary Augusta Ward
We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.
— Mary Augusta Ward
We all grow on somebody's grave ...
— Mary Augusta Ward
But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
— Mary Augusta Ward
Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.
— Mary Augusta Ward
Praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.
— Mary Augusta Ward
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
I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.
— Mary Augusta Ward
Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.
— Mary Augusta Ward
But you do not think much about the stars. They are always there. Look at them when you have a moment.
— Mary Jane Ward
Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.
— Mary Jane Ward
One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
— Mary Augusta Ward
Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.
— Mary Augusta Ward
But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.
— Mary Augusta Ward
When there's more sick ones than well ones, by golly the sick ones will lock the well ones up.
— Mary Jane Ward
It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.
— Mary Augusta Ward
Most men in the ward were now convalescing. To her, "each day the nurse's duties became lighter and therefore more irksome.
— Mary Allsebrook
Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
— Mary Augusta Ward