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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 for the comfort of one's neighbors.

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  Mean, House, Comfort

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• genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man, the strongest known link between the material life we have and the spiritual life that we can only guess at. Every great poet, painter, or musician - every inventor or man of science, every fine actor or orator, comes to us as the exponent of something diviner than we know. We cannot understand it, but we feel it, and acknowledge it.

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  Spiritual, Men, Unique

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• Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas, you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.

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  Queens, Husband, Women

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

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  Wrestling, Worry, African Proverbs

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• It is not the smallest use to try to make people good, unless you try at the same time - and they feel that you are trying - to make them happy. And you rarely can make another happy, unless you are happy yourself.

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  People, Trying, Use

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1857.

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• A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women do suffer therefrom, in all its infinite varieties: loss by death, by faithlessness or unworthiness, and by mistaken or unrequited affection.

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  Lost Love, Loss, Imagination

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

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• One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.

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  Littles, Helping, Sometimes

  "The Little Lame Prince and his Travelling Cloak" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1875.

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• Nothing but a speck we seem In the waste of waters round, Floating, floating like a dream, Outward bound.

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  Dream, Water, Floating

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “Outward Bound”

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• The irrevocable Hand
  That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut
  The portals of our earthly destinies;
  We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors
  Close after us, for ever.

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  Destiny, Doors, Hands

  "Poems" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, ("April"), 1859.

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• Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. The Omnipotent Himself could never be supposed by any, save those who out of their own human selfishness construct the attributes of Divinity, to be absorbed throughout eternity in the contemplation of His own ineffable bliss, were it not identical with His ineffable goodness and love.

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  Mean, Selfishness, And Love

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

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• We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it.

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  Human Nature, Make The Best Of It, Constructs

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 11), 1858.

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• It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave.

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  Courage, Often Is, People

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 11), 1858.

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• Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?

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  Happiness, Humans, Human Beings

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

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• What small account The All-living seems to take of this thin flame Which we call life. He sends a moment's blast Out of war's nostrils, and a myriad Of these our puny tapers are blown out Forever.

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  War, Flames, Forever

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “Looking Death In The Face”

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• O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

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  Queens, Clothes, Long

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• About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues carried to extremity, may grow into a fault, and do great harm, still, it never can do so much harm as that horrible laxity and profligacy of speech which is a the root of half the quarrels, cruelties, and injustices of the world.

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  Real, Roots, Faults

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• With faces like dead lovers who died true.

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  Faces, Lovers, Died

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 250-52, Indian Summer, 1922.

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• An author departs; he does not die.

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  Writing, Doe, Dies

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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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  Life Lesson, Struggle, Acceptance

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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 backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys
  Of vanished springs, like flowers.

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  Sweet, Spring, Flower

  "Poems" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, ("April"), 1859.

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• A secret at home is like rocks under tide.

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  Home, Rocks, Secret

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 695-96, Magnus and Morna, scene 2, 1922.

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

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  Happiness, Mean, Ends

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

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• The only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through the sea. Then its very ways of misery will divide, and become to us a wall, on the right side and on the left, until the gulf narrows before our eyes and we land safe on the opposite sore.

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  Wall, Humility, Eye

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• O the green things growing, the green things growing,
  The faint sweet smell of the green things growing!
  I should like to live, whether I smile or grieve,
  Just to watch the happy life of my green things growing.

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  Sweet, Spring, Happy Life

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “Green Things Growing”

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

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  Christmas, Grief, Angel

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “A Hymn For Christmas Morning”

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