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Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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She lay with her face to the wall, muttering low, but muttering always: Alas! alas! what is done in youth can never be undone in age! what is done in youth can never be undone in age!
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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But 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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He had married a delicate fine London lady; it was one of those perplexing marriages of which one cannot understand the reasons.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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At all times it is a bewildering thing to the poor weaver to see his employer removing from house to house, each one grander than the last, till he ends in building one more magnificent than all, or withdraws his money from the concern, or sells his mill, to buy an estate in the country, while all the time the weaver, who thinks he and his fellows are the real makers of this wealth, is struggling on for bread for his children, through the v..
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poverty
class
classics
class-struggle
housing
housing-crisis
manchester
mary-barton
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Roger let go; they were now on firm ground, and he did not wish any watchers to think that he was exercising any constraint over his father; and this quiet obedience to his impatient commands did more to soothe the Squire than anything else could have effected just then.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Oh dear! how she could have loved him if he had but been different,
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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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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Adios hija. Al fin nos separamos, si. Has sido una bendicion para tu padre desde el mismo dia en que naciste. Benditos sean tus labios palidos que sonrien ahora, y me alegra una vez mas tu sonrisa aunque estoy solo y triste para siempre.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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O, it ended in my having nothing to say, when I sat down to write. But sometimes, when I get hold of a book, I wonder why I let such a poor reason stop me. It does not others.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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wedding
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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But when she got into her own, she locked the door, and sate down to cry unwonted tears.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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But though "silver and gold he had none," he gave heart-service and love--works of far more value." --
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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But he could not, you cannot, read the lot of those who daily pass you by in the street. How do you know the wild romances of their lives; the trials, the temptations they are even now enduring, resisting, sinking under?
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Real meekness of character is called out by experience of kindness.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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But I'm clear about this, when God gives a blessing to be enjoyed, He gives it with a duty to be done; and the duty of the happy is to help the suffering to bear their woe.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Nothing like the act of eating for equalising men. Dying is nothing to it. The philosopher dies sententiously--the pharisee ostentatiously--the simple-hearted humbly--the poor idiot blindly, as the sparrow falls to the ground; the philosopher and idiot, publican and pharisee, all eat after the same fashion--given an equally good digestion. There's theory for theory for you!
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Pray, speak, sir; to see your face, and not be able to read it, gives me a worse dread than I trust any words of yours will justify.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Oh, don't be so wise and stupid.
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stupidity
wisdom
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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He thought that he disliked seeing one who had mortified him so keenly; but he was mistaken. It was a stinging pleasure to be in the room with her, and feel her presence.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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His greatest comfort was in hugging his torment; and in feeling, as he had indeed said to her, that though she might despise him, contemn him, treat him with her proud sovereign indifference, he did not change one whit. She could not make him change. He loved her and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Though it may take much suffering to kill the able-bodied and effective members of society, it does take much to reduce them to worn, listless, diseased creatures, who thenceforward crawl through life with moody hearts and pain-stricken bodies.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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But how would you have a wedding arranged?' 'Oh, I have never thought much about it; only I should like it to be a very fine summer morning; and I should like to walk to church through the shade of trees;
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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It is not right to anticipate evil, and to be always looking forward with an apprehensive spirit; but I think grief is a two-edged sword, it cuts both ways; the memory of one loss is the anticipation of another.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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but none--not the most skilful physician--can get at more than the outside of these things: the heart knows its own bitterness, and the frame its own poverty, and the mind its own struggles.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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But ne'er mind. We're but where we was; and I'll break stones on th' road afore I let these little uns clem.
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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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The vices of the poor sometimes astound us HERE; but when the secrets of all hearts shall be made known, their virtues will astound us in far greater degree. Of this I am certain.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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He that's convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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That is all very fine in theory, that plan of forgetting whatever is painful, but it will be somewhat difficult for me, at least, to carry it into execution.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Every talent, every feeling, every acquirement; nay, even every tendency towards virtue, was used up as materials for fireworks; the hidden, sacred fire, exhausted itself in sparkle and crackle. They talked about art in a merely sensuous way, dwelling on outside effects, instead of allowing themselves to learn what it has to teach. They lashed themselves up into an enthusiasm about high subjects in company, and never thought about them when..
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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I am not quite the person to decide on another's gentlemanliness, Miss Hale. I mean, I don't quite understand your application of the word. But I should say that this Morison is no true man. I don't know who he is; I merely judge him from Mr Horsfall's account.' 'I suspect my "gentleman" includes your "true man."' 'And a great deal more, you would imply. I differ from you. A man is to me a higher and a completer being than a gentleman."
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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The Jews, or Mohammedans (I forget which), believe that there is one little bone of our body,--one of the vertebrae, if I remember rightly,--which will never decay and turn to dust, but will lie incorrupt and indestructible in the ground until the Last Day: this is the Seed of the Soul. The most depraved have also their Seed of the Holiness that shall one day overcome their evil; their one good quality, lurking hidden, but safe, among all t..
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Do you think if I could help it, I would sit still with folded hands, content to mourn? Do you not believe that as long as hope remained I would be up and doing? I mourn because what has occurred cannot be helped. The reason you give me for not grieving, is the very sole reason of my grief. Give me nobler and higher reasons for enduring meekly what my Father sees fit to send, and I will try earnestly and faithfully to be patient; but mock m..
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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The mourner before him was no longer the employer; a being of another race, eternally placed in antagonistic attitude; going through the world glittering like gold, with a stony heart within, which knew no sorrow but through the accidents of Trade; no longer the enemy, the oppressor, but a very poor and desolate old man.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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when both were seated on a tuft of heather, in some high lonely place,
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Wild, strong hearts, and powerful minds, were hidden under an enforced propriety and regularity of demeanour and expression, just as their faces had been concealed by their father, under his stiff, unchanging mask.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Much of this nervous dread of encountering strangers I ascribed to the idea of her personal ugliness, which had been strongly impressed upon her imagination early in life, and which she exaggerated to herself in a remarkable manner. "I notice," said she, "that after a stranger has once looked at my face, he is careful not to let his eyes wander to that part of the room again!" A more untrue idea never entered into any one's head."
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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I grieve to say that I possess no portrait of either of my sisters.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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What, I sometimes ask, could I do without them? I have recourse to them as to friends; they shorten and cheer many an hour that would be too long and too desolate otherwise; even when my tired sight will not permit me to continue reading, it is pleasant to see them on the shelf, or on the table.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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She especially disliked the lowering of the standard by which to judge a work of fiction, if it proceeded from a feminine pen; and praise mingled with pseudo-gallant allusions to her sex, mortified her far more than actual blame.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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Come what will, I cannot, when I write, think always of myself and of what is elegant and charming in femininity; it is not on those terms, or with such ideas, I ever took pen in hand: and if it is only on such terms my writing will be tolerated, I shall pass away from the public and trouble it no more. Out of obscurity I came, to obscurity I can easily return.
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Elizabeth Gaskell |