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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.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

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
I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Myself Person Sort
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
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.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Head Myself Talk Thinking Writing
I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

God Kind People Promise Woman
Young children are such nasty little beasts!
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Beast Children Young
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 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
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

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

Finding Myself Observation 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
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 CARLYLE

Boil Cultivation Draw Preserve Species
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
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 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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