Dinah Maria Murlock Craik famous quotes

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

#Christmas #Jesus #Joy

A secret at home is like rocks under tide.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Home #Rocks #Secret

The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Life #Action #Thoughts On Life

Sweet April-time-O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and red lips with longing paled, And backward-hidden hands that clutch the joys Of vanished springs, like flowers.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Sweet #Spring #Flower

To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Life Lesson #Struggle #Acceptance

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

#Time #Odd #Minutes

An author departs; he does not die.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Writing #Doe

Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home, the delicious retirement of dependent love.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Retirement #Home #Life Is

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.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Mean #House #Comfort

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, forever.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Destiny #Years #Doors

With faces like dead lovers who died true.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Faces #Lovers

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Roots #Humanity #Fruit

Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Lanes #Wedlock #Matrimony

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

#Hands #Common #Mankind

Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Mother #Parent #Action

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.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Summer #Spring #Moving

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Happiness #Mean #Ends

It is not work that kills, but "worry."
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Wrestling #Worry

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

#Courage #People #Brave

When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Hope #Heaven #Trying

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Life #Humble #Love Is

Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty! Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty: Love given willingly, full and free, Love for love's sake - as mine to thee. Duty's a slave that keeps the keys, But Love, the master, goes in and out Of his goodly chambers with song and shout, Just as he please - just as he please.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Life #Song #Heart

It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels climb.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Christmas #Grief #Angel

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

#Real #Perfect #Silence

For truly, the greatest of all external blessings is it to be able to lean your heart against another heart, faithful, tender, true, and tried, and record with a thankfulness that years deepen instead of diminishing, "I have got a friend!"
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Real #Heart #Blessing

Not perhaps until later life, until the follies, passions, and selfishness of youth have died out, do we . . . recognize the the inestimable blessing, the responsibility awful as sweet, of possessing or of being a friend.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Sweet #Real #Passion

About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues carried to extremity, may grow into a fault, and do great harm, still, it never can do so much harm as that horrible laxity and profligacy of speech which is a the root of half the quarrels, cruelties, and injustices of the world.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Real #Roots #Half

Human life is so full of pain, that once past the youthful delusion that a sad countenance is interesting, and an incurable woe the most delightful thing possible, the mind instinctively turns where it can get rest, and cheer and sunshine. And the friend who can bring to it the largest portion of these is, of a natural necessity, the most useful, the most welcome, and the most dear.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Cheer #Pain #Real

O the green things growing, the green things growing, The faint sweet smell of the green things growing! I should like to live, whether I smile or grieve, Just to watch the happy life of my green things growing.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Sweet #Spring #Happy Life

The only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through the sea. Then its very ways of misery will divide, and become to us a wall, on the right side and on the left, until the gulf narrows before our eyes and we land safe on the opposite sore.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Wall #Humility #Eye

But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's deepest as well as one's most foolish thoughts come out simply and safely. Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Friendship #Kindness #Blessing

Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Anniversary #Sisterhood #Feelings

Silence sweeter is than speech.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Silence #Speech

Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Letting Go #Kindness #Blow