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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.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

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
Youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Faith Happiness Youth
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
Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Anand Thakur
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!
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Blank Creation Death Heaven Moon Sun Word
The less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Finding Myself Observation Time
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
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
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
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
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
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.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Anand Thakur
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?
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Destiny Heart Photography Wife
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
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Anand Thakur

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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