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One only "right" we have to assert in common with mankind--and that is as much in our hands as theirs--is the right of having something to do.

Hands, Common, Mankind

Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.

Lanes, Wedlock, Matrimony

"Thirty Years: Being Poems New and Old" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, ("Magnus and Morna"), 1880.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

Roots, Humanity, Fruit

Better no marriage, than a marriage short of the best.

Marriage

Nothing but a speck we seem In the waste of waters round, Floating, floating like a dream, Outward bound.

Dream, Water, Floating

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “Outward Bound”