we are so scornful when we are young! Dinah Maria Murlock Craik More Quotes by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik More Quotes From 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 affection decay fancy our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik money roots character When the ship is going down we trouble ourselves little enough about the style of the cabin furniture. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik cabins style littles The wonder is not that some married people are less happy than they hoped to be, but that any married people, out of the honeymoon, or even in it, are ever happy at all. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik married marriage people never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik romance noble A perfect marriage is as rare as a perfect love. Could it be otherwise, when both men and women are so imperfect? Could aught else be expected? Yet all do expect it. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik marriage perfect men the worst times come to an end if you can only wait long enough. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik worst-times waiting long We are all of us very perfect creatures so long as we are not tried. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik trouble perfect long Love never stands still; it must inevitably be either growing or decaying - especially the love of marriage. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik growing marriage stills We never discover the value of things till we have lost them. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik values loss lost there is nothing so absolute as the tyranny of weakness. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik absolutes weakness tyranny The plan of this world is infinite similarity and yet infinite variety. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik plans infinite world God rest ye, little children; let nothing you afright, Dinah Maria Murlock Craik block children jesus We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require of them sacrifices much heavier, comparatively, than those of any grown-up person. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik sacrifice perfection children 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 aunt uncles girl God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik utterance poet giving 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 often-is courage people A secret at home is like rocks under tide. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik rocks secret home The life of action is nobler than the life of thought. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik thoughts-on-life action life 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 comfort house mean
