Deborah Heiligman Quotes

#1. I keep on making what I can't do yet in order to learn to be able to do it.

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#2. We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of daughter Annie

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#3. My heart has often been too full to speak.' -Emma to husband Charles on her gratitude for 'the cheerful and affectionate looks you have given me when I know you have been miserably uncomfortable.

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#4. I have ceased to think even of barnacles!' -Charles Darwin

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#5. You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).'
Emma Darwin to husband Charles

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#6. More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma

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#7. God Only Knows the Issue.

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#8. It is feeling and not reasoning that drives one to prayer.' -Emma to Charles

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#9. I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can always trust, one always the same, always ready to give comfort, sympathy and the best advice. God bless you, my dear, you are too good for me.' -Charles to Emma, 1859

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#10. We shall me much less miserable together.' -Emma Darwin to husband Charles upon grief for loss of daughter Annie

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