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.
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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