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"Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?"
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Mary Augusta Ward[T]he better life cannot be imposed from without—it must grow from wit — Mary Augusta Ward
"[T]he better life cannot be imposed from without—it must grow from within."
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Mary Augusta Ward
Mary Augusta Ward
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Mary Augusta Ward was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward. She worked to improve education for the poor, setting up a Settlement in London. She was a staunch opponent of giving women the right to vote, and in 1908 she became the founding President of the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League.
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"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."
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"There is nothing more startling in human relations than the strong emotions of weak people."
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"We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realise all they tell us."
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"Place before your eyes two precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is—Put down enthusiasm! […] — the Church of England in a nutshell."
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"All things change,—creeds and philosophies and outward systems,—but God remains!"
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