When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
JANE WELSH CARLYLEA 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.
More Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes
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Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.
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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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Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.
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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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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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If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!
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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 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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The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother’s loss makes itself felt.
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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?
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The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
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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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Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
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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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