Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Quotes

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• But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Friendship, Kindness, Blessing

  A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

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• Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

  A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

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• For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender, true, and tried, and record with a thankfulness that years deepen instead of diminishing, "I have got a friend!"

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Real, Heart, Blessing

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• A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Real, Perfect, Silence

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• What comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! how the heart leaps up to meet a sunshiny face, a merry tongue, an even temper, and a heart which either naturally, or, what is better, from conscientious principle, has learned to take all things on their bright side, believing that the Giver of life being all-perfect Love, the best offering we can make to Him is to enjoy to the full what He sends of good, and bear what He allows of evil!

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Believe, Heart, Offering

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it,--in degree, perhaps, expiate it; but to brood over it is utter madness.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Regret, Past, Men

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• Many true words are spoken in jest.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Humor, Jest, True Words

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• When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Love, Life, Hope

  "Christian's Mistake" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (p. 64), 1865.

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

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Life, Action, Thoughts On Life

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• Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Life, Humble, Love Is

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 394), 1895.

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• Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Light

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• We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require of them sacrifices much heavier, comparatively, than those of any grown-up person.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Children, Sacrifice, Perfection

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• We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three words, "God is love" ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  God, Father, Soul

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 270), 1895.

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• A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Money, Untrustworthy, Incompetence

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• Human life is so full of pain, that once past the youthful delusion that a sad countenance is interesting, and an incurable woe the most delightful thing possible, the mind instinctively turns where it can get rest, and cheer and sunshine. And the friend who can bring to it the largest portion of these is, of a natural necessity, the most useful, the most welcome, and the most dear.

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  Cheer, Pain, Real

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• Not perhaps until later life, until the follies, passions, and selfishness of youth have died out, do we . . . recognize the the inestimable blessing, the responsibility awful as sweet, of possessing or of being a friend.

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  Sweet, Real, Passion

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• A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Parent, Poet, Born

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• The wonder is not that some married people are less happy than they hoped to be, but that any married people, out of the honeymoon, or even in it, are ever happy at all.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Marriage, People, Married

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• according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it's so warm' - it is not always warm.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Marriage, Boys, People

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• Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful whenever we choose - a theory that many poor hypochondriacs are taunted with till they are nigh driven mad - yet, on the other hand, no sane mind is ever left without the power of self-discipline and self-control in a measure, which measure increases in proportion as it is exercised.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Self, Hands, Discipline

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• 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.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Friendship, Best Friend, Relationship

  A Life for a Life ch. 16 (1859)

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• Money is meant not for hoarding, but for using; the aim of life should be to use it in the right way - to spend as much as we can lawfully spend, both upon ourselves and others. And sometimes it is better to do this in our lifetime, when we can see that it is well spent, than to leave it to the chance spending of those that come after us.

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  Money, Hoarding, Use

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• Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty!
  Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty:
  Love given willingly, full and free,
  Love for love's sake - as mine to thee.
  Duty's a slave that keeps the keys,
  But Love, the master, goes in and out
  Of his goodly chambers with song and shout,
  Just as he please - just as he please.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Life, Song, Heart

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “Plighted”

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• the worst times come to an end if you can only wait long enough.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Long, Waiting, Worst Times

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• Unless a woman has a decided pleasure and facility in teaching, an honest knowledge of everything she professes to impart, a liking for children, and, above all, a strong moral sense of her responsibility towards them, for her to attempt to enroll herself in the scholastic order is absolute profanation.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Strong, Children, Teaching

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