“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.” SoulEyeHoursGriefShadowGladOne HourAurora Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“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.” LongTreeClothesGreenStealingPerceiveQueensMulberry Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“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.” WarMomentsSeemsForeverAccountsFlamesBlast Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“Happiness! Can any human being undertake to define it for another?” HumansHappinessHuman Beings Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“No virtue ever was founded on a lie. The truth, then, at all risks and costs - the truth from the beginning. Make a clean breast to whomsoever you need to make it, and then - face the world.” WorldNeedsTruthFacesLyingVirtueRiskCostCleanBreasts Author: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.” FacesDiesSkyFamiliarFamiliar Faces Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“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.” ThinkingFoolAmountConsequenceFearlessIndifferentBullsHornsAstonishingEccentricity Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“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.” WorldFeelsWholeWaterDarknessSunSkyWalkingMoonReflectionAppreciateShiningAbsenceConclusionInevitableWarmthElsewherePaleIndefinableLearn To Appreciate Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“There is no sorrow under heaven which is, or ought to be, endless. To believe or to make it so, is an insult to Heaven itself.” BelieveHeavenOughtSorrowEndlessInsult Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik