3 Dinah Maria Mulock Quotes on Human nature

Dinah Maria Mulock quotes on human nature

20. 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. ~ Ch. 8

38. We have not to construct human nature afresh, but to take it as we find it, and make the best of it. ~ Ch. 11

50. O infinitely human, yet divine! Half clinging childlike to the mother found, Yet half repelling - as the soft eyes say, 'How is it that ye sought me? Wist ye not That I must be about my Father's business?'