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.
JANE WELSH CARLYLEYoung children are such nasty little beasts!
More Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes
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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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The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother’s loss makes itself felt.
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Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.
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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 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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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 glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
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Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
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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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Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least.
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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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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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Cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!
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Young children are such nasty little beasts!
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