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The less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

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

Finding Myself Observation Time
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.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Attractive Heart Myself Place Quantity
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
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
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
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
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
The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

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

Anand Thakur
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
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

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