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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.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Young children are such nasty little beasts!
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Beast Children Young
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 CARLYLE

Best Difference Earth Live
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Anand Thakur
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
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
Cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Better Care Hold Oneself
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
I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

God Kind People Promise Woman
All griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Bitterness Grief 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
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
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
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Anand Thakur
The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Fools Glitter Honor Respect Title
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
Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Anand Thakur

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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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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