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Drink, my jolly lads, drink with discerning,
Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning;
Never was owl more blind than a lover,
Drink and be merry, lads, half seas over.

— Dinah Craik Thirty Years, Being Poems New and Old (1880)

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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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