Mary Augusta Ward - Robert Elsmere (1888)

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There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

Mary Augusta Ward
One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

Mary Augusta Ward
Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

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
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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To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age...

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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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All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems — but God remains.

Mary Augusta Ward
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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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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Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.

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Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

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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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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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