Bounds Quote by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time - and they feel that…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

God rest ye, little children; let nothing you afright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night; Along the hills of Galilee…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels climb.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

It is not work that kills, but "worry."

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

A secret at home is like rocks under tide.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik