Mary A. Ward
Mary A. Ward
average world files
It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
growing-up biblical years
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.
should-have cities venice
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!
jesus age special
To reconceive the Christ! It is the special task of our age ...
ideas expansion infinite
Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.
distance shopping safe
Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.
people helping praise
praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.
strong thinking world
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.
strong people weakness
There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.
may moments morrow
... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.
generations graves grows
we all grow on somebody's grave ...
elements torment opposition
There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
education boots university
I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.
may mythology wells
One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else.