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How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Age: 54 †
Born: 1810
Born: September 29
Died: 1865
Died: January 12
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London
England
Author of Mary Barton
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson
Mrs. Gaskell
née Stevenson
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
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A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
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But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.
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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.
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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
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If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these houses of intimate acquaintances, not friends
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His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution but if we turn penitently to Him, He enables us to bear our punishment with a meek and docile heart, ‘for His mercy endureth forever.
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I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.
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Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior.
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What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils.
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I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still and it is a great art.
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A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.
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I wish I could love people as you do, Molly!' 'Don't you?' said the other, in surprise. 'No. A good number of people love me, I believe, or at least they think they do but I never seem to care much for any one. I do believe I love you, little Molly, whom I have only known for ten days, better than any one.
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I take it that 'gentleman' is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others but when we speak of him as 'a man,' we consider him not merely with regard to his fellow-men, but in relation to himself,--to life--to time--to eternity.
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That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.
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Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.
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As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.
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He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification.
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..still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.
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Oh, I can't describe my home. It is home, and I can't put its charm into words
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