"Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of……" — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
"Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together."
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31 Quotes by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with…
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Silence sweeter is than speech.
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It is not work that kills, but "worry."
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Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.
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A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
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The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.
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Sweet April-time-O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, And…
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To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.
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It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about…
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An author departs; he does not die.
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Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home, the delicious retirement of…
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How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not…
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