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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• Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

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  Inspirational, Teenage, Teens

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• Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire.

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  Greatness, Reign, Aspire

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• Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land.

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  Ocean, Land, Lovely

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• Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Behold, "There is a God," thou sayest. Thou sayest well: In that thou sayest all. To Be is more Of wonderful, than being, to have wrought, Or reigned, or rested.

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  Men, Miracle, Wonderful

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• Such a slender moon, going up and up, Waxing so fast from night to night, And swelling like an orange flower-bud, bright, Fated, methought, to round as to a golden cup, And hold to my two lips life's best of wine.

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  Flower, Wine, Moon

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• O fateful flower beside the rill- The Daffodil, the daffodil!

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  Flower, Daffodil

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• And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.

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  Pain, Heart, Years

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• From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love
  To long for, pureness to desire, a mount
  Of consecration it were good to scale.

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  Life, Long, Desire

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• It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.

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  Happiness, Happy, Fashion

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• How short our happy days appear!
  How long the sorrowful!

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  Time, Long, Happy Day

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• A birthday:-and now a day that rose
  With much of hope, with meaning rife-
  A thoughtful day from dawn to close:
  The middle day of human life.

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  Birthday, Thoughtful, Rose

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• And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

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  Brother, Way, Bitter

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• It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

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  Life Is Hard, Hard Life, Reason

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