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Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Inspirational Quotes (59)

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Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
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Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.
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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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Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.
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Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.
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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.
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Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?
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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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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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God rest you merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, Was born upon this day, To save us all from Satan's power When we were gone astray. O tidings of comfort and joy! For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, Was born on Christmas Day.
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An author departs he does not die.
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Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.
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We are all of us very perfect creatures so long as we are not tried.
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O, the sweet, sweet twilight just before the time of rest, When the black clouds are driven away, and the stormy winds suppressed.
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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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absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.
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... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant.
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If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors.
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Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the changing year, and so we change Motion so swift, we know not that we move.
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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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A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
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No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs - the truth from the beginning. Make a clean breast to whomsoever you need to make it, and then - face the world.
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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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There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.
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