All Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Quotes
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But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well…
All
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Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring…
All
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Silence sweeter is than speech.
Inspirational
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It is not work that kills, but "worry."
Inspirational
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Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.
Adjunct
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A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
Home
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The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.
Action
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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 that clutch the…
April
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To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.
Accept
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It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.
Astonishing
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An author departs; he does not die.
Author
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Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home, the delicious retirement of dependent love.
Absorption
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How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's…
Comfort
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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 blindfold, and the…
Blindfold
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With faces like dead lovers who died true.
Dead
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Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots
Been
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Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.
Inspirational
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One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something…
Assert
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Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.
Action
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Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the changing year, and so we change; Motion so swift, we…
Autumn
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Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Blow
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It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The…
Brave
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When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our…
Action
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Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.
Guiding
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A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.
Company
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