I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
JANE WELSH CARLYLEAll griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
More Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes
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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 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 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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I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.
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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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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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The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother’s loss makes itself felt.
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All griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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