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Look back. Look back at me. Richard Armitage spoke this line in the movie North and South as he watched Miss Hale drive away in a carriage.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Age: 54 †
Born: 1810
Born: September 29
Died: 1865
Died: January 12
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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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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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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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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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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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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But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of proportion in events, and seem each to believe that the walls and curtains which shut in their world, and shut out everything else, must of necessity be larger than anything hidden beyond.
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Man, through all ages of revolving time, Unchanging man, in every varying clime, Deems his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven o'er all the world beside Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
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It is bad to believe you in error. It would be infinitely worse to have known you a hypocrite.
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What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils.
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Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake! (Ms. Pole)
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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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A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.
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Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.
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I know you despise me allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.
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The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.
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As she realized what might have been, she grew to be thankful for what was.
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
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I dare say there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late.
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A girl in love will do a good deal.
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