Importune Quotes by Jane Welsh Carlyle

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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,…
• Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to…
• 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…
• The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even…
• If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me…
• 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…
• It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am…
• Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

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