I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
JANE WELSH CARLYLEIt 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.
More Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes
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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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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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The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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?
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I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.
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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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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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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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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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