There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment. Mary Augusta Ward More Quotes by Mary Augusta Ward More Quotes From Mary Augusta Ward There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people. Mary Augusta Ward weaknessstrongpeople Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation. Mary Augusta Ward expansioninfiniteideas Conviction is the conscience of the mind. Mary Augusta Ward convictionbeliefmind But no man has a monopoly of conscience. Mary Augusta Ward monopolyconsciencemen But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep. Mary Augusta Ward mindsleep English girls' schools today 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. Mary Augusta Ward girltakeneducation It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly. Mary Augusta Ward filesaverageworld A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas. Mary Augusta Ward stupidcharacterideas For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures. Mary Augusta Ward marriagewritingfiction 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 lastslittlestoday 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. Mary Augusta Ward spiritualcharactermen A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one. Mary Augusta Ward girlcountryschool But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term. Mary Augusta Ward girlsummerbook As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted. Mary Augusta Ward trainingintellectualyears A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it. Mary Augusta Ward exercisewritingbook Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879. Mary Augusta Ward daughtermotherchildren 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. Mary Augusta Ward daughtermotherfather I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many. Mary Augusta Ward very-interestinginteresting 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. Mary Augusta Ward cleverteacherchildren 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 christianjoyteacher
