Mary Augusta Ward
Mary Augusta Ward
Mary Augusta Ward CBEwas a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 June 1851
ideas expansion infinite
Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.
people helping praise
praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.
distance shopping safe
Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.
personality slavery chains
Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?
nature color delight
the delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended ...
eye two church
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.
may failing mischief
Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market.
god philosophy things-change
All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains.
daughter mother father
My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.
years training intellectual
As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
interesting very-interesting
I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
teacher clever children
I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.
may mythology wells
One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.
growing-up biblical years
So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.