"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."

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Source : Thomas Carlyle, Clyde de L. Ryals, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Kenneth J. Fielding, Ian Campbell (1997). “The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: 1850”, Duke University Press Books

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#Life Quotes #Logic Quotes #Cures Quotes

“If someone criticizes me, I strike back.”
“If you think too much about something, you're not feeling it.”
“The only reason to make a million dollars in this business is to tell some fat producer to go to hell.”
“Nothing has been given to me.”
“I owe America more than she has ever owed me.”
“There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.”
“Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid!”
“I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.”

Source : "The American Soul: An Appreciation of the Four Greatest Americans and their Lessons for Present Americans". Book by Charles Sherwood Farriss, p. 63, 1920.

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