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• A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Solitary Life, Fancy, Cherish

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2014). “Life of Charlotte Bronte”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Morning, Cake, Tea

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• For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of that gentle familiar attitude and all the attendant circumstances, he had a restless desire to renew her picture in his mind - a longing for the very atmosphere she breathed. He was in the Charybdis of passion, and must perforce circle and circle ever nearer round the fatal centre.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Pain, Attitude, Passion

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1151, Delphi Classics

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• Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Thinking, Trials, Rich

  Elizabeth Gaskell (1872). “Mary Barton a Tale of Manchester Life by Mrs. Gaskell”, p.6

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• A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Women, Literature, Littles

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.482, Delphi Classics

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• There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Father, Anger, Giving

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1967, Delphi Classics

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• What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Waiting, Anxiety, Use

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1102, BookCaps Study Guides

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• One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  May, Honey, Phony

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1420, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Home, Charm, I Can

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1365, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Really it is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect on others.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Exercise, Trying, Effects

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.47, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Degrees, Lovers, Ready

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1456, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Wearily she went to bed, wearily she arose in four or five hours' time. But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view of things.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Morning, Views, Bed

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1682, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Inspirational, Women, Memorable

  Cranford ch. 14 (1853)

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• If Mr. Thornton was a fool in the morning, as he assured himself at least twenty times he was, he did not grow much wiser in that afternoon. All that he gained in return for his sixpenny omnibus ride, was a more vivid conviction that there never was, never could be, any one like Margaret; that she did not love him and never would; but that she — no! nor the whole world — should never hinder him from loving her.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Morning, Twenties, Afternoon

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2012). “Norte e Sul: North and South: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.702, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Self Esteem, Believe, Self Confidence

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.2870, BookCaps Study Guides

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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.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Loyalty, Justice, Arbitrary

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1442, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Men, Dying, Eating

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• In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Sympathy, Disappointment

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.3149, Delphi Classics

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• Don’t be afraid,” she said, coldly, “ as far as love may go she may be worthy of you. It must have taken a good deal to overcome her pride. Don’t be afraid, John.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Taken, Pride, Overcoming

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1510, BookCaps Study Guides

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• . . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Agony, Joy, Sacred

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.155, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Margaret the Churchwoman, her father the Dissenter, Higgins the Infidel, knelt down together. It did them no harm.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Father, Together, Harm

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1545, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's; and the opposition of character, shown in all these details of appearance she had just been noticing, seemed to explain the attraction they evidently felt towards each other.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Smile, Father, Character

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1419, BookCaps Study Guides

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• He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her--while he was jealous of her--while he renounced her--he loved her sorely, in spite of himself.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Jealous, Names, Hearing

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1210, Delphi Classics

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• There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the sun had not yet fully set; a robin was singing ... The leaves were more gorgeous than ever; the first touch of frost would lay them all low to the ground. Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Autumn, Two, Giving

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2012). “Norte e Sul: North and South: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.544, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe, and was jealous of every circumstance that tried to gain admission. But if he dreaded exposure of his tenderness, he was equally desirous that all men should recognize his justice; and he felt that he had been unjust, in giving so scornful a hearing to anyone who had waited, with humble patience, for five hours, to speak to him.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Jealous, Heart, Humble

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1203, Delphi Classics

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