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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quotes: What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
         

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.


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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.



It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.



Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.



The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.



A perfect marriage is like a pure heart ... those who have it are fit to see God.

A perfect marriage is like a pure heart ... those who have it are fit to see God.



Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.



A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.



What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.



... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.

... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure.



Imagination is built upon knowledge.

Imagination is built upon knowledge.





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