Quotes by Mary Augusta Ward

Mary Augusta Ward

… the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.

May

Moments

Morrow

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.

Book

Exercise

Writing

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.

Country

Girl

School

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.

Character

Ideas

Stupid

All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems – but God remains.

God

Philosophy

Things Change

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

Intellectual

Training

Years

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

Book

Girl

Summer

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Conscience

Men

Monopoly

But the mind travels far – and mysteriously – in sleep.

Mind

Sleep

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!

Cities

Should Have

Venice

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Failing

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Quotes by Mary Augusta Ward

Mary Augusta Ward

… the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.

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.

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.

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.

All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems – but God remains.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

But the mind travels far – and mysteriously – in sleep.

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!

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