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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.

— Dinah Craik A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858)

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Meek — as the meek that shall inherit earth,
Pure — as the pure in heart that shall see God.

Thirty Years, Being Poems New and Old (1880)

Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth.

A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858)

Do you recognize what you were born to be? Not only a nobleman, but a gentleman; not only a gentleman, but a man — man, made in the image of God.

John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)

There never was night that had no morn.

Thirty Years, Being Poems New and Old (1880)

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

A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858)

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