Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Inspirational Copy Share Image
It is not work that kills, but "worry." — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik African proverbs Copy Share Image
never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Love Copy Share Image
Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik About friendship Copy Share Image
The life of action is nobler than the life of thought. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Action Copy Share Image
Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Devil Copy Share Image
Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another? — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Happiness Copy Share Image
Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Consequence Copy Share Image
there is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Light Copy Share Image
We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Acceptance Copy Share Image
Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the changing year, and so we change; Motion… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Autumn Copy Share Image
A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Company Copy Share Image
One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Clothes Copy Share Image
absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Absence Copy Share Image
For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Unless a woman has a decided pleasure and facility in teaching, an honest knowledge of everything she professes to impart, a liking… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Absolutes Copy Share Image
About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Money is meant not for hoarding, but for using; the aim of life should be to use it in the right way… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Affliction Copy Share Image
according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Blindfold Copy Share Image
Sweet April-time-O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, And backward-hidden hands… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik April Copy Share Image
Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Absolute truth Copy Share Image
Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Cheerful Copy Share Image
Gossip, public, private, social - to fight against it either by word or pen seems, after all, like fighting with shadows. Everybody… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as the time steals onwards, while… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
What comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! how the heart leaps up to meet a sunshiny face, a merry tongue, an… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
I fear, the inevitable conclusion we must all come to is, that in the world happiness is quite indefinable. We can no… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Absence Copy Share Image
It is a curious truth - and yet a truth forced upon us by daily observation - that it is not the… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Do your neighbour good by all means in your power, moral as well as physical - by kindness, by patience, by unflinching… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
