Believe Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell

8 Believe quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell

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Gaskell’s compassionate narrative appears in eight brief reflections on belief, offering a quick glimpse of her -era empathy. This compact set works as an easy entry point for readers interested in her humane perspective.

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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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But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of…

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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…

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“Mrs. Thornton; the only mother he has, I believe,”

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I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.

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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…

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The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

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

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No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother.

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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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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…

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“He never looked at her; and yet, the careful avoidance of his eyes betokened that in some way he knew exactly where, if they…

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“Ay! but mother's words are scarce, and weigh heavy. Father's liker me, and we talk a deal o' rubble; but mother's words are liker…

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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,…

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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…

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