God rest ye, little children; let nothing you afright, Dinah Maria Murlock Craik More Quotes by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik More Quotes From Dinah Maria Murlock Craik The irrevocable Hand Dinah Maria Murlock Craik destiny doors hands Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots Dinah Maria Murlock Craik fruit humanity roots 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 mankind common hands Action is the parent of results; dormancy, the brooding mother of discontent. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik parent mother 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 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. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik grief eye soul Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik ends happiness mean Silence sweeter is than speech. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik speech silence 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 love life Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik humble love-is life It is the Christmas time: Dinah Maria Murlock Craik christmas angel grief 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 silence real perfect 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 faults real roots O the green things growing, the green things growing, Dinah Maria Murlock Craik spring sweet 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 eye humility God rest you merry, gentlemen, Dinah Maria Murlock Craik comfort-and-joy christmas jesus 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 best-friend relationship friendship 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 clothes queens long What small account The All-living seems to take of this thin flame Which we call life. He sends a moment's blast Out of war's nostrils, and a myriad Of these our puny tapers are blown out Forever. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik flames forever war O how beautiful is morning! Dinah Maria Murlock Craik army morning beautiful
