Quotes by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

… it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the smallest possible use; yet for whose sake I have suffered the discomfort attending all action in moral improvements, without the happiness of knowing that this was clearly quite worth while.

Knowing

Luck

Progress

… life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it is comedy, it is psychical and physical pleasure, it is the interplay of a thousand rude or delicate motions and emotions, it is the grimmest and the merriest motley of phantasmagoria that could appeal to the gravest or the maddest brush ever put to palette; but it is steadily and sturdily and always moral responsibility.

Joy

Responsibility

Rude

… to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.

Thinking

Way

Work

… when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography which marks the inception of an unexpressed thought upon the pages of one’s notebook, one is aware, of any given idea, that the chances are against its ever being offered to one’s dearest readers.

Beautiful

Lying

Notebook

A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity…. No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.

Art

Hard Work

Inspiration

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world’s ignorance and press for admission.

Ignorance

Teacher

Teaching

A literary woman’s best critic is her husband.

Husband

Marriage

Women

A perfect marriage is like a pure heart … those who have it are fit to see God.

Fit

Heart

Perfect

Death is not the worst sorrow.

Death

Sorrow

Worst

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Happiness

Running

Weed

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Quotes by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

… it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the smallest possible use; yet for whose sake I have suffered the discomfort attending all action in moral improvements, without the happiness of knowing that this was clearly quite worth while.

… to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.

A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity…. No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world’s ignorance and press for admission.

A literary woman’s best critic is her husband.

A perfect marriage is like a pure heart … those who have it are fit to see God.

Death is not the worst sorrow.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

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