Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Love never stands still it must inevitably be either growing or decaying - especially the love of marriage.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Growing
Stills
Still
Decaying
Must
Inevitably
Never
Stands
Love
Especially
Marriage
Either
More quotes by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Young Dandelion On a hedge-side Said young Dandelion Who'll be my bride? Said young Dandelion With a sweet air, I have my eye on Miss Daisy fair.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
O, the sweet, sweet twilight just before the time of rest, When the black clouds are driven away, and the stormy winds suppressed.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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
Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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
There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
God rest ye, little children let nothing you afright, For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night Along the hills of Galilee the white blocks sleeping lay, When Christ, the child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas day.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
absence ... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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
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
Silence sweeter is than speech.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
We are all of us very perfect creatures so long as we are not tried.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik