Jane Welsh Carlyle
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"Jane Welsh Carlyle" was the wife of essayist Thomas Carlyle and has been cited as the reason for his fame and fortune. She was most notable as a Letter (message)/letter-writer. In 1973, G.B. Tennyson described her as

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Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has ''cast up'' in my time or is like to -- this art by which even the ''poor'' can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustn't it be acting favorably on the morality of the country?

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 only thing that makes one place more attractive to me than another is the quantity of heart I find in it.

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.