Author: Jane Welsh Carlyle

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the instant she is rivaled, becomes unjust.

Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards each other's worth; but woman, the instant she is rivaled, becomes unjust.

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

Use the noble gifts which God has given you!

Use the noble gifts which God has given you!

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

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

'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

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