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.
JANE WELSH CARLYLEThe glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
More Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes
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When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
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Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
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Young children are such nasty little beasts!
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I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.
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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 glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
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All griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
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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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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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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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Cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!
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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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I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
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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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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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