A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be;… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Affection 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
It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time - and they… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Feels Copy Share Image
We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves;… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Children 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
The life of action is nobler than the life of thought. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Action Copy Share Image
God rest ye, little children; let nothing you afright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night; Along the hills… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Block 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 Berries Copy Share Image
It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Angel Copy Share Image
It is not work that kills, but "worry." — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik African proverbs Copy Share Image
There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Erring Copy Share Image
Nothing but a speck we seem In the waste of waters round, Floating, floating like a dream, Outward bound. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Bounds 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 All things 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 Able Copy Share Image
never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Love Copy Share Image
Better no marriage, than a marriage short of the best. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Marriage Copy Share Image
O how beautiful is morning! How the sunbeams strike the daisies And the kingcups fill the meadow Like a golden-shielded army Marching… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Army 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
A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Careless Copy Share Image
If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Book 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
God rest you merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, Was born upon this day, To save us… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Born Copy Share Image
Autumn Into earth's lap does throw Brown apples gay in a game of play, As the equinoctials blow. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Apples Copy Share Image
