Quote

We are all of us very perfect creatures so long as we are not tried.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Trouble
Perfect
Long
Tried
Creatures

More quotes by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Image
Now, I have nothing to say against uncles in general. They are usually very excellent people, and very convenient to little boys and girls.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Image
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.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Image
The present only is a man's possession the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it,--in degree, perhaps, expiate it but to brood over it is utter madness.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Image
With faces like dead lovers who died true.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Image
A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Image
When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Image
... it does not do to tell great people anything unpleasant.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Image
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.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Image
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.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Image
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
Image
Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Image
Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Image
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
Image
Why cannot one always do, not only the right thing, but at the right time?
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Image
Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Image
There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Image
Loud wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains, Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea, Pour forth thy vials like streams from airy mountains, Draughts of life to me.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Image
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.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Image
Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Image
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