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Mary Barton QUOTES

Mary Barton QUOTES

21 " The Jews, or Mohammedans (I forget which), believe that there is one little bone of our body,—one of the vertebrae, if I remember rightly,—which will never decay and turn to dust, but will lie incorrupt and indestructible in the ground until the Last Day: this is the Seed of the Soul. The most depraved have also their Seed of the Holiness that shall one day overcome their evil; their one good quality, lurking hidden, but safe, among all the corrupt and bad. "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , Mary Barton

22 " Do you think if I could help it, I would sit still with folded hands, content to mourn? Do you not believe that as long as hope remained I would be up and doing? I mourn because what has occurred cannot be helped. The reason you give me for not grieving, is the very sole reason of my grief. Give me nobler and higher reasons for enduring meekly what my Father sees fit to send, and I will try earnestly and faithfully to be patient; but mock me not, or any other mourner, with the speech, "Do not grieve, for it cannot be helped. It is past remedy. "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , Mary Barton

23 " The mourner before him was no longer the employer; a being of another race, eternally placed in antagonistic attitude; going through the world glittering like gold, with a stony heart within, which knew no sorrow but through the accidents of Trade; no longer the enemy, the oppressor, but a very poor and desolate old man. "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , Mary Barton

24 " Unos instantes pueden cambiar nuestra forma de ser para toda la vida y "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , Mary Barton

25 " We're like childer, ever wanting what we han not got. "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , Mary Barton

26 " Jem had given it to him to bring to her; so it was safe enough; or, if it was not, why she should be glad never to set eyes on it again, for she could not abide fire-arms, they were so apt to shoot people. "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , Mary Barton

27 " People admire talent, and talk about their admiration. But they value common sense without talking about it, and often without knowing it. "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , Mary Barton

28 " Still he loved on, and on, ever more fondly. "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , Mary Barton

29 " For we have everyone one of us felt how a very few minutes of the months and years called life, will sometimes suffice to place all time past and future in an entirely new light; will make us see the vanity or the criminality of the bygone, and so change the aspect of the coming time, that we look with loathing on the very thing we have most desired. A few moments may change our character for life, by giving a totally different direction to our aims and energies. "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , Mary Barton

30 " When we are heavy-laden in our hearts, it falls in better with our humor to reveal our case in our own way and our own time. "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , Mary Barton

31 " They were a motley assembly, each with some cause for anxiety stirring at his heart; though, after all, that is saying little or nothing, for we are all of us in the same predicament through life; each with a fear and a hope from childhood to death. "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , Mary Barton

32 " probably (as the rumour had spread through the town, reaching her ears) one of the poor maddened turn-outs, "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , Mary Barton

33 " It was towards the end of February, in that year, and a bitter black frost had lasted for many weeks. The keen east wind had long since swept the streets clean, though in a gusty day the dust would rise like pounded ice, and make people's faces quite smart with the cold force with which it blew against them. Houses, sky, people, and everything looked as if a gigantic brush had washed them all over with a dark shade of Indian ink. "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , Mary Barton

34 " But he could not, you cannot, read the lot of those who daily pass you by in the street. How do you know the wild romances of their lives; the trials, the temptations they are even now enduring, resisting, sinking under? You may be elbowed one instant by the girl desperate in her abandonment, laughing in mad merriment with her outward gesture, while her soul is longing for the rest of the dead, and bringing itself to think of the cold-flowing river as the only mercy of God remaining to her here. You may pass the criminal, meditating crimes at which you will to-morrow shudder with horror as you read them. You may push against one, humble and unnoticed, the last upon earth, who in heaven will for ever be in the immediate light of God's countenance. Errands of mercy--errands of sin--did you ever think where all the thousands of people you daily meet are bound? "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , Mary Barton

35 " Of all the trite, worn-out, hollow mockeries of comfort that were ever uttered by people who will not take the trouble of sympathizing with others, the one I dislike the most is the exhortation not to grieve over an event, 'for it cannot be helped.' Do you think if I could help it, I would sit still with folded hands, content to mourn? Do you not believe that as long as hope remained I would be up and doing? I mourn because what has occurred cannot be helped. The reason you give me for not grieving, is the very and sole reason of my grief. "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , Mary Barton

36 " ¡No quiero dinero, niña! ¡Maldigo su caridad y su dinero! Quiero trabajo, es mi derecho. Quiero trabajo "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , Mary Barton

37 " I sometimes think there's two sides to the commandment; and that we may say, 'Let others do unto you, as you would do unto them,' for pride often prevents our giving others a great deal of pleasure, in not letting them be kind, when their hearts are longing to help; and when we ourselves should wish to do just the same, if we were in their place. "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , Mary Barton

38 " I tell you it's the poor, and the poor only, as does such things for the poor. Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't know, they ought to know. We're their slaves as long as we can work; we pile up their fortunes with the sweat of our brows, and yet we are to live as separate as if we were in two worlds; "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , Mary Barton

39 " La massa, quando è lasciata libera di decidere, sembra possedere discernimento sufficiente ad apprezzare il talento naturale di un oratore, ma è un peccato che non sappia sempre prendere in considerazione il carattere e i principi dell’oratore stesso. "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , Mary Barton

40 " Oh! sad is the night-time,
The night-time of sorrow,
When through the deep gloom, we catch but the boom
Of the waves that may whelm us to-morrow. "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , Mary Barton