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• The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.

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  Men, Doe, Great Men

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• O, the sweet, sweet twilight just before the time of rest,
  When the black clouds are driven away, and the stormy winds suppressed.

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  Sweet, Twilight, Clouds

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “Twilight In The North”

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• 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.

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  Mean, House, Comfort

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• genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man, the strongest known link between the material life we have and the spiritual life that we can only guess at. Every great poet, painter, or musician - every inventor or man of science, every fine actor or orator, comes to us as the exponent of something diviner than we know. We cannot understand it, but we feel it, and acknowledge it.

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  Spiritual, Men, Unique

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• Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas, you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.

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  Queens, Husband, Women

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• It is not work that kills, but "worry."

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  Wrestling, Worry, African Proverbs

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• 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.

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  Courage, Often Is, People

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 11), 1858.

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

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  Christmas, Grief, Angel

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “A Hymn For Christmas Morning”

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• Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.

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  Lanes, Wedlock, Matrimony

  "Thirty Years: Being Poems New and Old" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, ("Magnus and Morna"), 1880.

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• 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.

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  Hands, Common, Mankind

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• 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.

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  Grief, Eye, Soul

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “An Aurora Borealis”

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• 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.

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  Queens, Clothes, Long

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• 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.

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  War, Flames, Forever

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “Looking Death In The Face”

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• Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?

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  Happiness, Humans, Human Beings

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• 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.

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  Sky, Faces, Familiar

  "Thirty Years: Being Poems New and Old" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, ("Magnus and Morna"), 1880.

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• Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of "eccentricity" it will stand from anybody who takes the bull by the horns, too fearless or too indifferent to think of consequences.

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  Thinking, Fearless, Bulls

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 9), 1858.

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• I fear, the inevitable conclusion we must all come to is, that in the world happiness is quite indefinable. We can no more grasp it than we can grasp the sun in the sky or the moon in the water. We can feel it interpenetrating our whole being with warmth and strength; we can see it in a pale reflection shining elsewhere; or in its total absence, we, walking in darkness, learn to appreciate what it is by what it is not.

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  Reflection, Moon, Sky

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 10), 1858.

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• Alack, this world
  Is full of change, change, change--nothing but change!

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  Change, World, This World

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “Immutable”

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Morning, Army

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “A Stream’s Singing”

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• Why cannot one always do, not only the right thing, but at the right time?

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  Right Time, Right Thing

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• 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, for ever.
  
  Pause, my soul,
  On these strange words - for ever - whose large sound
  Breaks flood-like, drowning all the petty noise
  Our human moans make on the shores of Time.
  O Thou that openest, and no man shuts;
  That shut'st, and no man opens - Thee we wait!

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  Destiny, Men, Doors

  "Poems" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, ("April"), 1859.

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• There can be - there ought to be - no medium course; a love-affair is either sober earnest or contemptible folly, if not wickedness: to gossip about it is, in the first instance, intrusive, unkind, or dangerous; in the second, simply silly.

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  Silly, Gossip, Wickedness

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 8), 1858.

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• Gossip, public, private, social - to fight against it either by word or pen seems, after all, like fighting with shadows. Everybody laughs at it, protests against it, blames and despises it; yet everybody does it, or at least encourages others in it: quite innocently, unconsciously, in such a small, harmless fashion - yet we do it. We must talk about something, and it is not all of us who can find a rational topic of conversation, or discuss it when found.

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  Fashion, Fighting, Laughing

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 8), 1858.

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• Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people - as may be noticed of most young children - does truth, this rigid, literal veracity, come by nature. To many, even who love it and prize it dearly in others, it comes only after the self-control, watchfulness, and bitter experience of years.

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  Children, Self, Years

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 8), 1858.

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• 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.

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  Men, People, Heaven

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 9), 1858.

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