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Jane Welsh Carlyle quotes: The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

Jane Welsh Carlyle quotes: When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

Jane Welsh Carlyle quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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 time.

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 time.

Jane Welsh Carlyle quotes: Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.

Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.

Jane Welsh Carlyle quotes: 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 the ways of other houses.

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 the ways of other houses.

Jane Welsh Carlyle quotes: Youth is so insatiable of happiness, and has such sublimely insane faith in its own power to make happy and be happy!

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 quotes: I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

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

Jane Welsh Carlyle quotes: If I have an antipathy for any class of people, it is for fine ladies. I almost match my Husband's detestation of partridge-shooting gentlemen.

If I have an antipathy for any class of people, it is for fine ladies. I almost match my Husband's detestation of partridge-shooting gentlemen.

Jane Welsh Carlyle quotes: 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 unoccupied.

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 unoccupied.

Jane Welsh Carlyle quotes: The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

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 quotes: There is never much to be feared for anyone that is born with sense and truth in him, whatever else he may have or want.

There is never much to be feared for anyone that is born with sense and truth in him, whatever else he may have or want.

Jane Welsh Carlyle quotes: I rely on the promise, 'God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.'

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

Jane Welsh Carlyle quotes: Young children are such nasty little beasts!

Young children are such nasty little beasts!

Jane Welsh Carlyle quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!

Cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!

Jane Welsh Carlyle quotes: The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt ...

The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt ...

Jane Welsh Carlyle quotes: 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.

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 quotes: There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.

There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.

Jane Welsh Carlyle quotes: Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh Plato! - make a pudding?

Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh Plato! - make a pudding?

Jane Welsh Carlyle quotes: The less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

The less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.

Jane Welsh Carlyle quotes: I wonder that among all the evils deprecated in the Liturgy, no one thought of inserting flitting. Is there any worse thing? Oh no, no!

I wonder that among all the evils deprecated in the Liturgy, no one thought of inserting flitting. Is there any worse thing? Oh no, no!

Jane Welsh Carlyle quotes: 'On earth the living have much to bear;' the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.

'On earth the living have much to bear;' the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.

Jane Welsh Carlyle quotes: Use the noble gifts which God has given you!

Use the noble gifts which God has given you!

Jane Welsh Carlyle quotes: The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.