There can be - there ought to be - no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Affair 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 Bathing Copy Share Image
Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Action Copy Share Image
Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another? — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Happiness 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
The plan of this world is infinite similarity and yet infinite variety. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Infinite Copy Share Image
A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect?… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Expected Copy Share Image
It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Brave 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
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
Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of "eccentricity" it will stand from anybody who takes… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Amount Copy Share Image
The world! It is a word capable of as diverse interpretations or misinterpretations as the thing itself - a thing by various… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Capable Copy Share Image
O blest one hour like this! to rise And see grief's shadows backward roll; While bursts on unaccustomed eyes The glad Aurora… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Aurora 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
Why cannot one always do, not only the right thing, but at the right time? — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Right thing Copy Share Image
One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Common 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 Cabins Copy Share Image
there is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Absolutes 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 Blindfolds 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
This is practically the language used to fallen women, and chiefly by their own sex: "God may forgive you, but we never… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Arrogance Copy Share Image
