Young children are such nasty little beasts!
JANE WELSH CARLYLEIf 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!
More Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes
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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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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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I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.
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Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
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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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The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
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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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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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The less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.
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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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Cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!
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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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When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
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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 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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