Scottish letter writer.
She was the wife of Thomas Carlyle known for her letter writing that was not only entertaining but of literary and historical importance.
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The only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.
It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.
Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time -- this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
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Published Sources for Quotations Above:
F:
In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.
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In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.
A:
Letter, 21 Oct 1859; in "The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle," 1970.
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In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.
K:
Letters and Memorials," 1883, entry for 21 Nov 1855.
