The longer I live, the more I am certified that men, in all that relates to their own health, have not common sense! whether it be their pride, or their impatience, or their obstinancy, or their ingrained spirit of contradiction, that stupefies and misleads them, the result is always a certain amount of idiocy, or distraction in their dealings with their own bodies! ... either by their wild impatience of bodily suffering, and the exaggerated moan they make over it, or else by their reckless defiance of it, and neglect of every dictate of prudence!
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
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
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 … - Jane Welsh Carlyle
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 …
The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt. - Jane Welsh Carlyle
The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt.
Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humani… - 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 humani…
the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do. - Jane Welsh Carlyle
the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do.
I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for. - Jane Welsh Carlyle
I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time. - Jane Welsh Carlyle
all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we ar… - Jane Welsh Carlyle
How many precious things do we not already possess which others have not - have hardly an idea of! Let us enjoy these, then, and bless God that we ar…
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
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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