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If you live in Milton, you must learn to have a brave heart, Miss Hale.' 'I would do my best,' said Margaret rather pale. 'I do not know whether I am brave or not till I am tried; but I am afraid I should be a coward.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Ask , and it shall be given until you. That is no vain or untried promise, Ruth!
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prayer
religious
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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She never called her son by any name but John; 'love,' and 'dear,' and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny. But her heart gave thanks for him day and night; and she walked proudly among women for his sake.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Charlotte Bronte] once told her sisters that they were wrong - even morally wrong - in making their heroines beautiful as a matter of course. They replied that it was impossible to make a heroine interesting on any other terms. Her answer was, 'I will prove to you that you are wrong; I will show you a heroine as plain and as small as myself, who shall be as interesting as any of yours.
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writing
jane-eyre
charlotte-bronte
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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He were found drowned. He were coming home very hopeless o' aught on earth. He thought God could na be harder than men; mappen not so hard; mappen as tender as a mother; mappen tenderer. I'm not saying he did right, and I'm not saying he didn't wrong. All I say is, may neither me nor mine ever have his sore heart, or we may do like things.
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suicide
suffering
hardship
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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dbc757a
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As far as one knows of heroines from history. I'm capable of a great jerk, an effort, and then a relaxation--but steady every-day goodness is beyond me. I must be a moral kangaroo!
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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It is right to hope for the best about everybody, and not to expect the worst. This sounds like a truism, but it has comforted me before now, and some day you'll find it useful. One has always to try to think more of others than of oneself, and it is best not to prejudge people on the bad side.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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I dare say, my remark came from the professional feeling of there being nothing like leather.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Daniel was very like a child in all the parts of his character. He was strongly affected by whatever was present, and apt to forget the absent. He acted on impulse, and too often had reason to be sorry for it; but he hated his sorrow too much to let it teach him wisdom for the future.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life, and what she had done with it; and she tried to settle that most difficult problem, how much was to be utterly merged in obedience to authority, and how much might be set apart for freedom in working.
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problem-for-women
victorian-era
women-question
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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My father once made us," she began, "keep a diary, in two columns; on one side we were to put down in the morning what we thought would be the course and events of the coming day, and at night we were to put down on the other side what really had happened. It would be to some people rather a sad way of telling their lives," (a tear dropped upon my hand at these words) - "I don't mean that mine has been sad, only so very different to what I ..
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sadness
life
musings
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via interest. I fancy a good number of us, when any line of action will promote our own interest, can make ourselves believe that reasons exist which compel us to it as a duty.
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ends
interest
sardonic
duty
reasoning
purpose
self-deception
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Let us go on and see little Susan, said Margaret, drawing her companion up a grassy road-way, leading under the shadow of a forest glade. "With all my heart, though I have not an idea who little Susan may be. But I have a kindness for all Susans, for simple Susan's sake."
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. If she dies--mother, I can't speak of what I shall feel if she dies." His voice was choked in his throat."
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marriage
loss
love
jem
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Many a one has been comforted in their sorrow by seeing a good dish come upon the table.
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food
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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If Miss Beresford had not been in such a hurry to marry a poor country clergyman, there was no knowing what she might not have become. But Dixon was too loyal to desert her in her affliction and downfall (alias her married life).
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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In a few minutes tea was brought. Very delicate was the china, very old the plate, very thin the bread-and-butter, and very small the lumps of sugar. Sugar was evidently Mrs. Jamieson's favourite economy.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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2fd05a8
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Fools will always break out o' bounds.
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to-margaret
strike
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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You know the proverb, Mr. Hale, 'set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the devil' - well, some of these early manufacturers did ride to the devil in a magnificent style - crushing human bone and flesh beneath their horses' hoofs without remorse.
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industry
manufacturers
trade
devil
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life. My theory is a sort of parody on the maxim of "Get money, my son, honestly if you can; but get money." My precept is, "Do something, my sister, do good if you can; but, at any rate, do something."
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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he had never known her value, he thought, till now.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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There's iron, they say, in all our blood, And a grain or two perhaps is good; But his, he makes me harshly feel, Has got a little too much of steel.' ANON.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Nothing had been the same; and this slight, all-pervading instability, had given her greater pain than if all had been too entirely changed for her to recognise it. I begin to understand now what heaven must be-and, oh! the grandeur and repose of the words-"The same yesterday, to-day, and for ever." Everlasting! "From everlasting to everlasting, Thou art God." That sky above me looks as though it could not change, and yet it will. I am so t..
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Was it a doubt - a fear - a wandering uncertainty seeking rest, but finding none - so tear-blinded were its eyes - Mr. Thornton, instead of being shocked, seemed to have through that very stage of thought himself, and could suggest where the exact ray of light was to be found, which should make the dark places plain. Man of action as he was, busy in the world's great battle, there was a deeper religion binding him to God in his heart, in sp..
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men-of-action
uncertainty
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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My father was a man, and I know the sex pretty well.
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sex
men
women
humor
gender
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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We cannot speak loudly or angrily at such times; we are not apt to be eager about mere worldly things, for our very awe at our quickened sense of the nearness of the invisible world, makes us calm and serene about the petty trifles of today.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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even before he left the room,--and certainly, not five minutes after, the clear conviction dawned upon her, shined bright upon her, that he did love her; that he had loved her; that he would love her.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Ay! but mother's words are scarce, and weigh heavy. Father's liker me, and we talk a deal o' rubble; but mother's words are liker to hewn stone. She puts a deal o' meaning in 'em.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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I am a man. I claim the right of expressing my feelings.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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The morning brought more peace if it did not entirely dissipate fear.
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morning
peace
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used-not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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It was one of Mrs. Hale's fitful days, when everything was a difficulty and a hardship; and Mr Lennox's appearance took this shape, although secretly she felt complimented by his thinking it worthwhile to call.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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I believe that this suffering, which Miss Hale says is impressed on the countenances of the people of Milton, is but the natural punishment of dishonestly-enjoyed pleasure, at some former period of their lives. I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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And I too change perpetually--now this, now that--now disappointed and peevish because all is not exactly as I had pictured it, and now suddenly discovering that the reality is far more beautiful than I had imagined it.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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But, as Margaret half suspected, Edith had fallen asleep. She lay curled up on the sofa in the back drawing-room in Harley Street, looking very lovely in her white muslin and blue ribbons. If Titania had ever been dressed in white muslin and blue ribbons, and had fallen asleep on a crimson damask sofa in a back drawing-room, Edith might have been taken for her. Margaret was struck afresh by her cousin's beauty. They had grown up together fr..
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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but the whispered tone had latterly become more drowsy; and Margaret, after a pause of a few minutes, found, as she fancied, that in spite of the buzz in the next room, Edith had rolled herself up into a soft ball of muslin and ribbon, and silken curls, and gone off into a peaceful little after-dinner nap.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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While she sought for this paper, her very heart-pulse was arrested by the tone in which Mr. Thornton spoke. His voice was hoarse, and trembling with tender passion, as he said:-- "Margaret!" For an instant she looked up; and then sought to veil her luminous eyes by dropping her forehead on her hands. Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. "Margaret!" Still lower went the head; more closely h..
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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a wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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What does it signify how we dress here at Cranford, where everybody knows us?" And if they go from home, their reason is equally cogent, "What does it signify how we dress here, where nobody knows us?"
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Mother's love is given by God, John. It holds fast for ever and ever. A girl's love is like a puff of smoke,-it changes with every wind.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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the contemplation of it, even at this distance of time, has taken away my breath and my grammar, and unless I subdue my emotion, my spelling will go too.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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If she could have anticipated them, how she would have shrunk away and hid herself from the coming time! And yet day by day had, of itself, and by itself, been very endurable -- small, keen, bright little spots of positive enjoyment having come sparkling into the very middle of sorrows.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Keske sana ne kadar yalniz oldugumu anlatabilsem. Burasinin ne kadar soguk ve sert oldugunu. Her yerde bir celiski ve cefa var. Tanri'nin bu yeri unuttugunu dusunuyorum. Sanirim cehennemi gordum ve o beyaz, cehennem sevgili Edith, kar beyazi...
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north-and-south
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Elizabeth Gaskell North And South |