“Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.” Quote by Mary Augusta Ward
“praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.” PeopleHelpingPraise Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“Every great religion is, in truth, a concentration of great ideas, capable, as all ideas are, of infinite expansion and adaptation.” IdeasCapableInfiniteConcentrationExpansionAdaptationGreat Idea Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“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.” IfsThinkingWorldHumansEnergyStrongGrowsInterestHuman BeingsOpinionWeakRelationFolksDullSincere Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.” PeopleHumansStrongEmotionWeaknessWeakRelationHuman RelationsWeak PeopleStrong Emotions Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.” MayMomentsMorrow Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.” ThinkingMindDoeInterestConditionsOughtLooking BackKindles Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“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.” TwoEyeChurchEnglandEnthusiasmProtestantismChurch Of England Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“Though I admire republican principles in theory, yet I am afraid the practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried a republic last century, and it failed. Let our enemies try next. I hate political experiments.” TryingHumansMayLastsPoliticalHateNextPerfectEnemyPrinciplesPracticeCenturyHuman NatureTheoryRepublicanI HateExperimentsAdmireRepublic Author:Robert Walpole