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Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

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

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

Bitterness Grief Time
Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

Anand Thakur
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
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

Better Father Invention Lying Swallow Worst
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

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