Mary Augusta Ward Professions : Novelist Born : June 11, 1851 Died : March 24, 1920 Browse All Authors Top 48 quotes by Mary Augusta Ward Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it. Mary Augusta Ward found stories men Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love. Mary Augusta Ward pain christian past praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best. Mary Augusta Ward praise helping people Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system. Mary Augusta Ward creeds memorable 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 church eye two Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market. Mary Augusta Ward mischief failing may We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us. Mary Augusta Ward realizing literature enough 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 university boots education The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm. Mary Augusta Ward journalism alive secret To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age. Mary Augusta Ward special age jesus City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice! Mary Augusta Ward venice cities should-have We all grow on somebody's grave. Mary Augusta Ward graves generations grows All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains. Mary Augusta Ward things-change god philosophy my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art! Mary Augusta Ward thirds art firsts The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended. Mary Augusta Ward delight color nature There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment. Mary Augusta Ward torment opposition elements Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time! Mary Augusta Ward generations age helping Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament? Mary Augusta Ward slavery chains personality Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away. Mary Augusta Ward trout shopping distance Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds. Mary Augusta Ward mind doe thinking Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
