Jean Ingelow Quotes

• A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

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  Life, Beauty, Blessing

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• I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

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  Life, Thank You, Prayer

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• Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

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  Men, Miracle

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• How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.

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  Stars, Rocks, Sky

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• I am athirst for God, the living God.

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  God

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• The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.

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  Flower, Moon, Night

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• There is but halting for the wearied foot;
  The better way is hidden. Faith hath failed;
  One stronger far than reason mastered her.
  It is not reason makes faith hard, but life.

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  Life, Feet, Stronger

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• I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.

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  Heart, Thinking, Cheerful

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• Children bring their own love with them when they come.

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  Children, Headstone

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• When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.

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  Sorrow, Sparrows, Cry

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• I don't want to die. But I want to be dead.

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  Depression, Suicide, Want

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• I have lived life long enough to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered

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  Prayer, Long, Thank God

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• Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

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  Flower, Good Day, Light

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• When I remember something which I had,
  But which is gone, and I must do without,
  I sometimes wonder how I can be glad,
  Even in cowslip time when hedges sprout;
  It makes me sigh to think on it,--but yet
  My days will not be better days, should I forget.

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  Regret, Thinking, Remember Something

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• we wish for more in life rather than more of it.

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  Life, Wish

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• I opened the doors of my heart.
  And behold,
  There was music within and a song,
  And echoes did feed on the sweetness, repeating it long.
  I opened the doors of my heart. And behold,
  There was music that played itself out in aeolian notes:
  Then was heard, as a far-away bell at long intervals tolled.

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  Happiness, Song, Heart

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• And the guelder rose
  In a great stillness dropped, and ever dropped,
  Her wealth about her feet.

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  Feet, Rose, Wealth

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• O sleep! O sleep!
  Do not forget me. Sometimes come and sweep,
  Now I have nothing left, thy healing hand
  Over the lids that crave thy visits bland,
  Thou kind, thou comforting one.
  For I have seen his face, as I desired,
  And all my story is done.
  O, I am tired.

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  Healing, Tired, Sleep

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• O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep;
  Thou bearest angels to us in the night,
  Saints out of heaven with palms.
  Seen by thy light
  Sorrow is some old tale that goeth not deep;
  Love is a pouting child.

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  Children, Sleep, Angel

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• Crowds of bees are giddy with clover
  Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet,
  Crowds of larks at their matins hang over,
  Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.

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  Sweet, Feet, Larks

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• What change has made the pastures sweet
  And reached the daisies at my feet,
  And cloud that wears a golden hem?
  This lovely world, the hills, the sward--
  They all look fresh, as if our Lord
  But yesterday had finished them.

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  Sweet, Spring, Past

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• Tears are the showers that fertilize this world ...

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  Tears, World, This World

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• Yet there are some resting-places, / Life's untroubled interludes; / Times when neither past nor future / On the soul's deep calm intrudes.

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  Peace, Past, Soul

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• You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face?

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  Moon, Heaven, Done

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• What is thy thought? There is no miracle?
  There is a great one, which thou hast not read,
  And never shalt escape. Thyself, O man,
  Thou art the miracle. Ay, thou thyself,
  Being in the world and of the world, thyself,
  Hast breathed in breath from Him that made the world.
  Thou art thy Father's copy of Himself,--
  Thou art thy Father's miracle.

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  Art, Father, Men

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