A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. – Will it ever be more than a picture?
JANE WELSH CARLYLEYoung children are such nasty little beasts!
More Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes
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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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On earth the living have much to bear; the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.
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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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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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Cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!
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The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
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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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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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Young children are such nasty little beasts!
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How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not – have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we are permitted to enjoy them, rather than importune His goodness with vain longings for more.
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Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.
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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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The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother’s loss makes itself felt.
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Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
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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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