God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Giving 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 Dies 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
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
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
The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Degrees 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
the worst times come to an end if you can only wait long enough. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Ends Copy Share Image
... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Doe 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
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
Human life is so full of pain, that once past the youthful delusion that a sad countenance is interesting, and an incurable… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Cheer Copy Share Image
Alack, this world Is full of change, change, change--nothing but change! — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Change Copy Share Image
Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Devil Copy Share Image
We never discover the value of things till we have lost them. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Loss Copy Share Image
We are all of us very perfect creatures so long as we are not tried. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Creatures 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
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
I fear, the inevitable conclusion we must all come to is, that in the world happiness is quite indefinable. We can no… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Absence Copy Share Image
To have loved and lost, either by that total disenchantment which leaves compassion as the sole substitute for love which can exist… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Apologetic 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
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
our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Character 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
Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Ethics Copy Share Image
