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All griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

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.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Blessing Enjoyment Himself Longing Possession Precious
I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

God Kind People Promise Woman
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Anand Thakur
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.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Earth Engagement Positive
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.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Devotion Habit People Wife
The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Attractive Heart Myself Place Quantity
Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Achievement Feeling Greatness Help Oneself Try
I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Myself Person Sort
The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother’s loss makes itself felt.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Feeling Hard Time Live Loss Mom World
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 CARLYLE

Boil Cultivation Draw Preserve Species
The less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Finding Myself Observation Time
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.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Doubt Effort Honest Myself Seek World
Young children are such nasty little beasts!
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Beast Children Young
All griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Bitterness Grief Time
The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Fools Glitter Honor Respect Title
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.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Earth Finding Myself Stupidity Teaching

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