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The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Jane Welsh Carlyle
Age: 65 †
Born: 1801
Born: January 14
Died: 1866
Died: April 21
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Haddington
East Lothian
Jane Baillie Welsh
Jane Baillie Carlyle
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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 creation than the words: Byron is dead!
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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?
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