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
Deborah HeiligmanMore than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
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You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).'
Emma Darwin to husband Charles
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I have ceased to think even of barnacles!' -Charles Darwin
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It is feeling and not reasoning that drives one to prayer.' -Emma to Charles
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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.
Deborah HeiligmanGod Only Knows the Issue.
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There were still few rules at Down House, and Charles was not very good at enforcing the ones he and Emma did make. This was well known among his children. In 1855, when Lenny was about five, Charles walked in to find his son jumping up and down and tumbling all over a new sofa.
'Oh Lenny, Lenny,' Charles said. 'You know it is against all rules.'
'Then,' Lenny said to his papa, 'I think you'd better go out of the room.'
And so Charles did.
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We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of daughter Annie
Deborah HeiligmanWe shall me much less miserable together.' -Emma Darwin to husband Charles upon grief for loss of daughter Annie
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