We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Construct Copy Share Image
To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Acceptance Copy Share Image
Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Be humble 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
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
Loud wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains, Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea, Pour forth thy vials like streams… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Airy 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
As we sail through life towards death, Bound unto the same port--heaven,-- Friend, what years could us divide? — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Bounds Copy Share Image
The only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Affliction 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
For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Able Copy Share Image
Unless a woman has a decided pleasure and facility in teaching, an honest knowledge of everything she professes to impart, a liking… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Absolutes 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
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
Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty! Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty: Love given willingly, full and… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Beauty Copy Share Image
We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan;… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik All things Copy Share Image
Young Dandelion On a hedge-side Said young Dandelion Who'll be my bride? Said young Dandelion With a sweet air, I have my… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Air 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
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
Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. The Omnipotent Himself could never be supposed… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik And love Copy Share Image
Not perhaps until later life, until the follies, passions, and selfishness of youth have died out, do we . . . recognize… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Awful Copy Share Image
