Mind Quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell

8 Mind quotes by Elizabeth Gaskell

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Elizabeth Gaskell’s Victorian sensibility appears in these eight concise reflections, offering a thoughtful, period‑aware look at inner life.

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“But, surely, if the mind is too long directed to one object only, it will get stiff and rigid, and unable to…

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“He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto ...”

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“All the morning since he got up he had been trying to fight through his duties—leaning against a hope—a hope that first…

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“He could not bear to see pain, or sorrow, or misery of any kind; and, if it came under his notice, he…

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“All the morning since he got up he had been trying to fight through his duties—leaning against a hope—a hope that first…

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But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her Mother's…

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Oh yes!' and suddenly the wintry frost-bound look of care had left Mr. Thornton's face, as if some soft summer gale had…

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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…

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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…

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In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.

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But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown…

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“And besides, in the matter of friendship, I have observed that the disappointment here arises chiefly, not from liking our friends too well, or…

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What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it…

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“The first question sobbed out by his choking voice, oppressed with emotion, was-- "Where is she?" They led him to the room where his…

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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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