All griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
JANE WELSH CARLYLEThe only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.
More Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
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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.
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I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
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Cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!
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Youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!
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The less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.
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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.
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The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother’s loss makes itself felt.
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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.
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The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
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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.
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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.
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