Margaret Warde quotes

“What would the world be like without men and music?”
-- Margaret Warde

Source : Margaret Warde (1906). “Betty Wales, Freshman: A Story for Girls”

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“how to divide ourselves fairly between ourselves and the rest of the world is the hardest question we ever have to answer.”
-- Margaret Warde

Source : Margaret Warde (1906). “Betty Wales, Freshman: A Story for Girls”

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“... on the whole we have just as much orange left and it tastes far better, if we give a good deal of it away.”
-- Margaret Warde

Source : Margaret Warde (1906). “Betty Wales, Freshman: A Story for Girls”

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“Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose, To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave. The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur'd dance of all. And this is Musick.”

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”

“The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.”

“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”

“A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.”

“Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.”

“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”

“Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.”

“Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.”

Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press

“It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.”