God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none but He knows the bitterness of our souls.Margaret to Bessy re: trials & burdens we all carry
Still he loved on, and on, ever more fondly.
All the morning since he got up he had been trying to fight through his duties—leaning against a hope—a hope that first had bowed, and then had broke as soon as he really tried its weight. There was n...
…everything may be done in a right way or a wrong; the right way is to do it as well as we can, as in God’s sight; the wrong is to do it in a self-seeking spirit, which either leads us to neglect it t...
What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong.
In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears...
He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto ...
Now, the error which many parents commit in the treatment of the individual at this time(adolescense) is, insisting on the same unreasoning obedience as when all he had to do in the way of duty was, t...
Nature felt no change, and was ever young.
Bid her beware of French principles, which had led the French to cut off their king’s and queen’s heads.
But between the busy heads and over-reaching arms he could see Charley and Sylvia, sitting close together, talking and listening more than eating. She was in a new strange state of happiness not to be...
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
She might be idle, and silent, and forgetful, - and what seemed more than all other privileges - she might be unhappy if she liked.
If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. If she dies--mother, I can't speak of what I shall feel if she dies. His voice was choked in his throat.
I just wished to know if you mean to marry the girl. Spite of what you said of her lightness, I ha' known her long enough to be sure she'll make a noble wife for any one, let him be what he may; and I...
Her thoughts are full of other things just now; and people have such different ways of showing feeling: some by silence, some by words.
But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life, and what she had done with it; and she tried to settle that most difficult problem, how muc...
It was her brother,' said Mr. Thornton to himself. 'I am glad.I may never see her again; but it is comfort-a relief-to know that much. I knew she could not be unmaidenly; and yet I yearned for convict...
I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do'Then, mother, you make me love her more. She is unjustly treated by you, and I must make the balance even.
That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ...