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Dinah Craik Quotes

1826–1887 England

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (20 April 1826 – 12 October 1887) was an English novelist and poet. Born Dinah Maria Mulock, the name under which her first works were published, her work has also been presented as by Dinah Craik, Dinah Maria Craik, Dinah Mulock Craik, and simply Miss Mulock or Mrs.

England
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Also known as: Craik, Dinah, Dinah Maria Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, Dinah Mulock, Mulock, Dinah Maria

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"You want to found a family. [...] [A]ll coming generations shall live to the honour and glory of your name—our name—"
"My boy, there is only one Name to whose honour we should all live."

John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)

Awakener, come! ... Let Thy wide hand
Gather us all — with none left out (O God!
Leave Thou out none!) from the east and from the west.

No one but me ever knew all his goodness, no one but himself ever knew how dearly I loved your father. We were more precious each to each than anything on earth; except His service, who gave us to one another.

John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)

It seemed as if she had given these treasures and left him alone — to use them or lose them, apply them or misapply them, according to his own choice. That is all we can do with children, when they grow into big children, old enough to distinguish between right and wrong, and too old to be forced to do either.

The Little Lame Prince and his Travelling Cloak (1875)

A vision without a task is but a dream.
A task without vision is but drudgery.
A vision with a task is the hope of the world.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dinah Craik (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.