Mary A. Ward
Mary A. Ward
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But to me, in my twenties, these great names were not merely names or symbols, as they are to the men and women of the present generation.
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But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
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I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.
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Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.
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But hardly any of us were at all on fire for woman suffrage, wherein the Oxford educational movement differed greatly from the Cambridge movement.
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English girls' schools to-day providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.
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How little those who are school-girls of to-day can realize what it was to be a school-girl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
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The Life of the Master, by Evelyn Abbott and Lewis Campbell, is to me one of the most interesting biographies of our generation.
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For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town.
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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.
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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.
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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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Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.
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Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?