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Mary Augusta Ward quotes: The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

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 quotes: But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Mary Augusta Ward quotes: My credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

My credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

Mary Augusta Ward quotes: I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.

I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.

Mary Augusta Ward quotes: Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

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

Mary Augusta Ward quotes: For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

Mary Augusta Ward quotes: It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

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

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

Mary Augusta Ward quotes: Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

Mary Augusta Ward quotes: The strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.

The strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.

Mary Augusta Ward quotes: As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

Mary Augusta Ward quotes: We all grow on somebody's grave ...

We all grow on somebody's grave ...

Mary Augusta Ward quotes: But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

Mary Augusta Ward quotes: To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age ...

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

Mary Augusta Ward quotes: All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains.

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

Mary Augusta Ward quotes: There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.

There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.

Mary Augusta Ward quotes: There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

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

Mary Augusta Ward quotes: 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!

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 quotes: Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.

Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.

Mary Augusta Ward quotes: Praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.

Praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.

Mary Augusta Ward quotes: I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

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 quotes: We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

Mary Augusta Ward quotes: Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.

Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.

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

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.

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

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

Mary Augusta Ward quotes: But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

Mary Augusta Ward quotes: It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

Mary Augusta Ward quotes: Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.