Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes

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

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

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Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality and preach it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

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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!"

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