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

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

Jane Welsh Carlyle
Circles, Justice, Diversity
Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2011). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.322, Cambridge University Press

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.

Jane Welsh Carlyle
Life, Nature, Logic
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

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
Make Happy, Insane, Youth
Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2011). “Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.3, Cambridge University Press

A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?

Jane Welsh Carlyle
Destiny, Wife, Heartless

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