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 CARLYLENever does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.
More Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes
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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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Young children are such nasty little beasts!
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When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
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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 less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.
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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.
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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!
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I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.
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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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I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
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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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Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
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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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