63 Quotes by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

Down in the deep, up in the sky, I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces.

Many true words are spoken in jest.

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.

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.

The plan of this world is infinite similarity and yet infinite variety.

Happiness is not an end – it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.

The world! It is a word capable of as diverse interpretations or misinterpretations as the thing itself a thing by various people supposed to belong to heaven, man, or the devil, or alternatively to all three.

A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women do suffer therefrom, in all its infinite varieties: loss by death, by faithlessness or unworthiness, and by mistaken or unrequited affection.

Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.