For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. Mary Augusta Ward More Quotes by Mary Augusta Ward More Quotes From Mary Augusta Ward Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it. Mary Augusta Ward foundstoriesmen Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love. Mary Augusta Ward painchristianpast praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best. Mary Augusta Ward praisehelpingpeople Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system. Mary Augusta Ward creedsmemorable 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. Mary Augusta Ward churcheyetwo Other trades may fail. The agitator is always sure of his market. Mary Augusta Ward mischieffailingmay We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us. Mary Augusta Ward realizingliteratureenough 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 universitybootseducation 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. Mary Augusta Ward journalismalivesecret To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age. Mary Augusta Ward specialagejesus City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice! Mary Augusta Ward venicecitiesshould-have We all grow on somebody's grave. Mary Augusta Ward gravesgenerationsgrows All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains. Mary Augusta Ward things-changegodphilosophy my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art! Mary Augusta Ward thirdsartfirsts 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. Mary Augusta Ward delightcolornature There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment. Mary Augusta Ward tormentoppositionelements Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time! Mary Augusta Ward generationsagehelping Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament? Mary Augusta Ward slaverychainspersonality Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away. Mary Augusta Ward troutshoppingdistance Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds. Mary Augusta Ward minddoethinking
