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• Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Heart, Bravery, Want

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1182, Delphi Classics

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• Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that furnace he would fight his way out into the serenity of middle age,-all the richer and more human for having known this great passion.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Struggle, Passion, Fighting

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1215, Delphi Classics

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• If you dare to injure her in the least, I will await you where no policeman can step in between. And God shall judge between us two.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Two, Judging, Steps

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1022, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the triumph of the crowded procession, have the helpless been trampled on, instead of being gently lifted aside out of the roadway of the conqueror, whom they have no power to accompany on his march?

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Suffering, Triumph, Done

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.955, Delphi Classics

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• To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Marriage, Girl, Men

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2015). “Wifes And Daughters”, p.76, Elizabeth Gaskell

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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.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Mother, Children, Heart

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1272, 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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• He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Olives, Faces, Firsts

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1052, Delphi Classics

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• How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Smart, Party, Sorrow

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1043, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Character, Self, People

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1422, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life....My precept is, do something, my sister, do good if you can; but at any rate, do something.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Thinking, My Sister, Made

  Elizabeth Gaskell (1998). “North and South”, p.451, OUP Oxford

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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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• 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.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Home, Pride, Men

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• What could he mean by speaking so, as if I were always thinking that he cared for me, when I know he does not; he cannot. ... But I won't care for him. I surely am mistress enough of myself to control this wild, strange, miserable feeling

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Mean, Thinking, Feelings

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1624, BookCaps Study Guides

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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.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Men, Gentleman, Fellow Man

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1049, Delphi Classics

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• But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to think about it.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Insomnia, Thinking, Ideas

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1216, Delphi Classics

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• That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Hate, Patriotism, Kind

  Sylvia's Lovers ch. 1 (1863)

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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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• It is odd enough to see how the entrance of a person of the opposite sex into an assemblage of either men or women calms down the little discordances and the disturbance of mood.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Sex, Men, Opposites

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2015). “Wifes And Daughters”, p.137, Elizabeth Gaskell

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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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• 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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• Even before he left the room, — and certainly, not five minutes after, the clear conviction dawned upon her, shined bright upon her, that he did love her; that he had loved her; that he would love her. And she shrank and shuddered as under the fascination of some great power.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Ideas, Fascination, Use

  "North and South".

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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.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Chance, Pleasure, Deny

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

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• Mr. Thorton love Margaret! Why, Margraret would never think of him, I'm sure! Such a thing has never entered her head." "Entering her heart would do.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Heart, Thinking, Entering

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• I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me - for I shall never marry; and I anticipate cares and sorrows just as if I were an old woman, and with the same fearful spirit.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Childhood, Sorrow, Age

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1619, BookCaps Study Guides

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