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In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe. — Samuel Johnson

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

The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train. — David Lee Roth

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

Be patient with yourself and take heart. Your self-confidence will grow if you seek challenges and worry less about the initial insecurity. — Wendy Lustbader

There are plenty of examples of people who have had busy lives out there in the world, trying to do good, and written very well at the same time. — Andrew Motion

I need you more than I need freedom. — Lora Leigh

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

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

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

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

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

The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality. — Leo Tolstoy

Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government
take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian. — Henry Ford

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

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything. — Brit Marling

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

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

Do not allow consumerism to dictate your spiritual practice. You need nothing more than your focused attention to gain enlightenment. — Gary Hopkins

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