Mary A. Ward Quotes

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 A. Ward

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 A. Ward

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879. - Mary A. Ward

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 A. Ward

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly. - Mary A. Ward

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership. - Mary A. Ward

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 A. Ward

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 A. Ward

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 A. Ward

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