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title: "3 Portals Earthly Quotes By Dinah Maria Murlock Craik"
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> [The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/the-irrevocable-hand-that-opes-the-year-s-fair-gate-doth-ope-and-shut/)

[Dinah Maria Murlock Craik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/)

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> [The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/the-irrevocable-hand-that-opes-the-year-s-fair-gate-doth-ope-and-shut-2/)

[Dinah Maria Murlock Craik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/)

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> [The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/the-irrevocable-hand-that-opes-the-year-s-fair-gate-doth-ope-and-shut-3/)

[Dinah Maria Murlock Craik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/)

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## More by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

> [A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/a-lost-love-deny-it-who-will-ridicule-it-treat-it-as-mere-imagination/)

[Dinah Maria Murlock Craik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/)

> [Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/let-every-one-of-us-cultivate-in-every-word-that-issues-from-our/)

[Dinah Maria Murlock Craik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/)

> [It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time - and they feel that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/it-is-not-the-smallest-use-to-try-to-make-people-good-unless-you-try/)

[Dinah Maria Murlock Craik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/)

> [We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/we-expect-too-much-from-our-children-we-exact-from-them-a-perfection/)

[Dinah Maria Murlock Craik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/)

> [Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/happiness-is-not-an-end-it-is-only-a-means-and-adjunct-a-consequence/)

[Dinah Maria Murlock Craik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/)

> [The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/the-life-of-action-is-nobler-than-the-life-of-thought/)

[Dinah Maria Murlock Craik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/)

> [God rest ye, little children; let nothing you afright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night; Along the hills of Galilee…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/god-rest-ye-little-children-let-nothing-you-afright-for-jesus-christ/)

[Dinah Maria Murlock Craik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/)

> [O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/o-the-mulberry-tree-is-of-trees-the-queen-bare-long-after-the-rest/)

[Dinah Maria Murlock Craik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/)

> [It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels climb.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/it-is-the-christmas-time-and-up-and-down-twixt-heaven-and-earth-in/)

[Dinah Maria Murlock Craik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/)

> [It is not work that kills, but "worry."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/it-is-not-work-that-kills-but-worry/)

[Dinah Maria Murlock Craik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/)

> [A secret at home is like rocks under tide.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/a-secret-at-home-is-like-rocks-under-tide/)

[Dinah Maria Murlock Craik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/)

> [There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/there-are-no-judgments-so-harsh-as-those-of-the-erring-the/)

[Dinah Maria Murlock Craik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/)

> [Nothing but a speck we seem In the waste of waters round, Floating, floating like a dream, Outward bound.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/nothing-but-a-speck-we-seem-in-the-waste-of-waters-round-floating/)

[Dinah Maria Murlock Craik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/)

> [It is a curious truth - and yet a truth forced upon us by daily observation - that it is not the women who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/it-is-a-curious-truth-and-yet-a-truth-forced-upon-us-by-daily/)

[Dinah Maria Murlock Craik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/)

> [About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues carried to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/about-the-greatest-virtue-a-friend-can-have-is-to-be-able-to-hold-her/)

[Dinah Maria Murlock Craik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinah-maria-murlock-craik/)

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