Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes

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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…
• 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,…
• I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
• The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.
• Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.
• 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.
• The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
• 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…
• When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
• Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I…
• 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…
• Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
• I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as what we have…
• One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to…
• It is much to be wished that one had a post that knew what it was doing again; and lawmakers that knew what they were…
• One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by…
• The habits of study in which I have been brought up have done much to support me. I never allow myself to be one moment…
• Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh Plato! - make…
• There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.
• A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it…

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