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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.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Age: 54 †
Born: 1810
Born: September 29
Died: 1865
Died: January 12
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Author of Mary Barton
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson
Mrs. Gaskell
née Stevenson
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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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Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good.
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He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or two, during which time his face, his eyes, his look, told of more sympathy than could be put into words.
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It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive. (Mr. Bell)
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It seems strange to think, that what gives us most hope for the future should be called Dolores, said Margaret.
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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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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.
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I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly passion eddy continually.
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
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I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee.
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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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Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid.
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A girl in love will do a good deal.
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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.
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And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her.
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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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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.
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He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
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All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.
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