Quotes of Jane Welsh Carlyle - somelinesforyou

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

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

“ 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

“ Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. ”

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

“ Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. ”

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

“ 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

“ 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

“ When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor. ”

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

“ 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

“ Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time or is like to — this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones… ”

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

“ Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time or is like to — this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones… ”

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

“ 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

“ A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth. ”

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

“ Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. ”

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor. ”

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

“ Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time or is like to — this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones… ”

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

“ Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time or is like to — this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones… ”

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

“ Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. ”

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

“ Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. ”

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

“ Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time or is like to — this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones… ”

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

“ Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. ”

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

“ A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth. ”

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

“ 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

“ 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

“ When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor. ”

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

“ When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor. ”

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

“ 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

“ 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
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