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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 became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.
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Her mind was like a stretch of wet sand, on which all impressions are equally easy to make and equally fugitive.
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It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
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Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.
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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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A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, — too much money, and too few ideas.
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'One might have seen it with half an eye from the beginning.' Mrs. Thornbrugh had not seen it with two eyes, as we know, till it was pointed out to her; but her imagination worked with equal liveliness backwards or forwards.
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Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance — show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.
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Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
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Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.
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It is a great thing to be persuaded that at bottom you have a good heart. Lady Charlotte was so persuaded, and allowed herself many things in consequence.
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We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.
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Dr. Meyrick, who though glad to talk, was also quite content, apparently, to judge from the radiant placidity of his look, to examine his wine, study his menu, and enjoy his entrées in silence, undisturbed by the uncertain pleasures of conversation.
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My credo is very short. Its first article is art — and its second is art — and its third is art!
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All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems — but God remains.
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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!
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There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
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Her audience looked on at first with the embarrassed or hostile air which is the Englishman's natural protection against the great things of art...
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I'd as soon hear a bird-clapper preach as him — theer'd be more sense an' less noise!
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To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age...
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There were gulfs between them — gulfs which, as it seemed to him, in a miserable insight, could never be bridged again. Oh, the frightful separateness of experience!
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I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.
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Praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.
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Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.
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The better life cannot be imposed from without — it must grow from within.
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Mary Augusta Ward
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Born:
June 11, 1851
Died:
March 24, 1920
(aged 68)
Bio:
Mary Augusta Ward née Arnold; was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward.
Known for:
Robert Elsmere (1888)
Helbeck of Bannisdale (1898)
Sir George Tressady (1896)
Lady Rose's Daughter (1903)
The History of David Grieve (1892)
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