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The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

All griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Bitterness Grief Time
The triumphal-procession-air which, in our manners and customs, is given to marriage at the outset – that singing of Te Deum before the battle has begun.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Anand Thakur
Homeopathy – an invention of the Father of Lies! I have tried it and found it wanting. I would swallow their whole doles medicine chest for sixpence, and be sure of finding myself neither better nor worse for it.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Better Father Invention Lying Swallow Worst
It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Anand Thakur
Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Anand Thakur
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Doubt Effort Honest Myself Seek World
I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Myself Person Sort
Cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Better Care Hold Oneself
Youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Faith Happiness Youth
The less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Finding Myself Observation Time
The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Attractive Heart Myself Place Quantity
The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother’s loss makes itself felt.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Feeling Hard Time Live Loss Mom World
Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Head Myself Talk Thinking Writing
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Anand Thakur
People who are so dreadfully “devoted” to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people’s wives as well.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Devotion Habit People Wife
A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Earth Engagement Positive

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

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