Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!
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… - Mary Augusta Ward
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…
- Mary Augusta Ward
The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in wh… - Mary Augusta Ward
The delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in wh…
Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation. - Mary Augusta Ward
Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.
There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment. - Mary Augusta Ward
There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.
praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best. - Mary Augusta Ward
praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.
But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep. - Mary Augusta Ward
But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.
Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of… - Mary Augusta Ward
Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of…
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, - … - Mary Augusta Ward
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, - …
We all grow on somebody's grave. - Mary Augusta Ward
We all grow on somebody's grave.
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