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 More Quotes by Mary Augusta Ward More Quotes From Mary Augusta Ward It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership. Mary Augusta Ward partnership marriage In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction. Mary Augusta Ward trust choices art We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress. Mary Augusta Ward women government real 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. Mary Augusta Ward biblical growing-up years The thoughts and opinions of one human being, if they are sincere, must always have an interest for some other human beings. The world is there to think about; and if we have lived, or are living, with any sort of energy, we must have thought about it, and about ourselves in relation to it - thought 'furiously' often. And it is out of the many 'thinkings' of many folk, strong or weak, dull or far-ranging, that thought itself grows. Mary Augusta Ward strong dull thinking One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. Mary Augusta Ward mythology wells may 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. Mary Augusta Ward university house spring years
