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It is not work that kills, but worry.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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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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Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
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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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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.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?
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It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.
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Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.
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A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
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... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant.
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An author departs he does not die.
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Autumn Into earth's lap does throw Brown apples gay in a game of play, As the equinoctials blow.
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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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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.
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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
Love never stands still it must inevitably be either growing or decaying - especially the love of marriage.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
We never discover the value of things till we have lost them.
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 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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When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.
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