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• Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces.

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  Sky, Faces, Familiar

  "Thirty Years: Being Poems New and Old" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, ("Magnus and Morna"), 1880.

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• It is a curious truth - and yet a truth forced upon us by daily observation - that it is not the women who have suffered most who are the unhappy women. A state of permanent unhappiness - not the morbid, half-cherished melancholy of youth, which generally wears off with wiser years, but that settled, incurable discontent and dissatisfaction with all things and all people, which we see in some women, is, with very rare exceptions, at once the index and the exponent of a thoroughly selfish character.

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  Selfish, Character, Years

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

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• There can be - there ought to be - no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if not wickedness: to gossip about it is, in the first instance, intrusive, unkind, or dangerous; in the second, simply silly.

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  Silly, Gossip, Wickedness

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 8), 1858.

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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.
  
  Pause, my soul,
  On these strange words - for ever - whose large sound
  Breaks flood-like, drowning all the petty noise
  Our human moans make on the shores of Time.
  O Thou that openest, and no man shuts;
  That shut'st, and no man opens - Thee we wait!

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  Destiny, Men, Doors

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

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• Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people - as may be noticed of most young children - does truth, this rigid, literal veracity, come by nature. To many, even who love it and prize it dearly in others, it comes only after the self-control, watchfulness, and bitter experience of years.

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  Children, Self, Years

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 8), 1858.

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• The world! It is a word capable of as diverse interpretations or misinterpretations as the thing itself - a thing by various people supposed to belong to heaven, man, or the devil, or alternatively to all three.

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  Men, People, Heaven

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 9), 1858.

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• Why cannot one always do, not only the right thing, but at the right time?

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  Right Time, Right Thing

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• Gossip, public, private, social - to fight against it either by word or pen seems, after all, like fighting with shadows. Everybody laughs at it, protests against it, blames and despises it; yet everybody does it, or at least encourages others in it: quite innocently, unconsciously, in such a small, harmless fashion - yet we do it. We must talk about something, and it is not all of us who can find a rational topic of conversation, or discuss it when found.

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  Fashion, Fighting, Laughing

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 8), 1858.

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• O how beautiful is morning!
  How the sunbeams strike the daisies
  And the kingcups fill the meadow
  Like a golden-shielded army
  Marching to the uplands fair.

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  Beautiful, Morning, Army

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “A Stream’s Singing”

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• I fear, the inevitable conclusion we must all come to is, that in the world happiness is quite indefinable. We can no more grasp it than we can grasp the sun in the sky or the moon in the water. We can feel it interpenetrating our whole being with warmth and strength; we can see it in a pale reflection shining elsewhere; or in its total absence, we, walking in darkness, learn to appreciate what it is by what it is not.

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  Reflection, Moon, Sky

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

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• To-morrow is ah, whose?

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  Tomorrow, Morrow

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “Between Two Worlds”

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• Alack, this world
  Is full of change, change, change--nothing but change!

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  Change, World, This World

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “Immutable”

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• Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of "eccentricity" it will stand from anybody who takes the bull by the horns, too fearless or too indifferent to think of consequences.

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  Thinking, Fearless, Bulls

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 9), 1858.

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• To have loved and lost, either by that total disenchantment which leaves compassion as the sole substitute for love which can exist no more, or by the slow torment which is obliged to let go day by day all that constitutes the diviner part of love - namely, reverence, belief, and trust, yet clings desperately to the only thing left it, a long-suffering apologetic tenderness - this lot is probably the hardest any woman can have to bear.

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  Letting Go, Compassion, Long

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

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• When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.

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  Style, Cabins, Littles

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• ... what a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.

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  Book, Life Is, Proportion

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• there is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness.

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  Weakness, Tyranny, Absolutes

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• One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do.

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  Hands, Common, Mankind

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• ... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant.

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  People, Doe, Great People

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• we are so scornful when we are young!

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  Youth, Young

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• never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it.

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  Romance, Noble

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• The plan of this world is infinite similarity and yet infinite variety.

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  World, Infinite, Plans

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• O blest one hour like this! to rise And see grief's shadows backward roll; While bursts on unaccustomed eyes The glad Aurora of the soul.

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  Grief, Eye, Soul

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “An Aurora Borealis”

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• Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Lanes, Wedlock, Matrimony

  "Thirty Years: Being Poems New and Old" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, ("Magnus and Morna"), 1880.

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• Better no marriage, than a marriage short of the best.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Marriage

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