... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Doe Copy Share Image
... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Book 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
The life of action is nobler than the life of thought. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Action 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
never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Love 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
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
When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Cabin 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
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
The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Doe Copy Share Image
Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Deep 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 Aunt 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
No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs - the truth from the beginning.… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Breasts Copy Share Image
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik About friendship Copy Share Image
What small account The All-living seems to take of this thin flame Which we call life. He sends a moment's blast Out… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Accounts 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
O the green things growing, the green things growing, The faint sweet smell of the green things growing! I should like to… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Green 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
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 Aim 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
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
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
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
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 Blame Copy Share Image
Better no marriage, than a marriage short of the best. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Better Copy Share Image
Why cannot one always do, not only the right thing, but at the right time? — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Right Copy Share Image
Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Light Copy Share Image
there is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Absolute 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
Love never stands still; it must inevitably be either growing or decaying - especially the love of marriage. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Growing 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 Helping 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
