Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Consequence Copy Share Image
never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Love 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
God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Giving Copy Share Image
the worst times come to an end if you can only wait long enough. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
We never discover the value of things till we have lost them. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Loss 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
There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Love never stands still; it must inevitably be either growing or decaying - especially the love of marriage. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik 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
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
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 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
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 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 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 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
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
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 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 Copy Share Image
genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik 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 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
Do your neighbour good by all means in your power, moral as well as physical - by kindness, by patience, by unflinching… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
What comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! how the heart leaps up to meet a sunshiny face, a merry tongue, an… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
We are all of us very perfect creatures so long as we are not tried. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Action Copy Share Image
Alack, this world Is full of change, change, change--nothing but change! — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Change Copy Share Image
The plan of this world is infinite similarity and yet infinite variety. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik 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 Copy Share Image
There is no sorrow under heaven which is, or ought to be, endless. To believe or to make it so, is an… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik 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
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 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
