Jean Ingelow Quotes

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

  Jean Ingelow

  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

  Jean Ingelow (1873). “Off the Skelligs: A Novel”, p.571

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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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• 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

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.227

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

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  Men, Miracle

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.175

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

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  Life, Wish

  Jean Ingelow (1873). “Off the Skelligs: Collection of British and American Authors”, p.293

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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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• 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, Angel, Sleep

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.244

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

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  Children, Headstone

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.17

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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

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.19

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• Tears are the showers that fertilize this world.

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  Tears, World, This World

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.206

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• I am athirst for God, the living God.

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  God

  Jean Ingelow (1885). “Poems”

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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

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.83

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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 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

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.187

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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

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.206

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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

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.208

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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.

  Jean Ingelow

  Art, Father, Men

  Jean Ingelow, “A Story Of Doom: Book Vii.”

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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

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.39

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• I wish, and I wish that the spring would go faster,
  Nor long summer bide so late;
  And I could grow on like the foxglove and aster,
  For some things are ill to wait.

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  Summer, Spring, Long

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.57

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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

  Jean Ingelow (1913). “Poems by Jean Ingelow”

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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

  Jean Ingelow (1885). “Poems”

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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

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.131

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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

  Jean Ingelow (1885). “Poems”

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