Jean Ingelow quotes

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. (Jean Ingelow)
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. View quote
Jean Ingelow
How short our happy days appear! How long the sorrowful! View quote
Jean Ingelow
I am glad to think I am not bound to make the wrong go right; But only to discover, and to do With cheerful heart, the work that God appoints. View quote
Jean Ingelow
I have lived life long enough to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. View quote
Jean Ingelow
It is a comely fashion to be glad,- Joy is the grace we say to God. View quote
Jean Ingelow
When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother. View quote
Jean Ingelow
Reign, and keep life in this our deep desire Our only greatness is that we aspire. View quote
Jean Ingelow
Work is its own best earthly need, Else have we none more than the sea-born throng Who wrought these marvellous isles that bloom afar. View quote
Jean Ingelow
Man is the miracle in nature and nature is natural. 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. View quote
Jean Ingelow
[H]e was a graduate in nature's university. Nature is wiser than the schoolmaster; she educates but she never crams. Her scholars do not go up to take their degrees; their degrees come to them. (Jean Ingelow)
A man's world, but woman bides her time. View quote
Jean Ingelow
Like coral insects multitudinous The minutes are whereof our life is made. They build it up as in the deep's blue shade It grows, it comes to light, and then, and thus For both there is an end. View quote
Jean Ingelow
But two are walking apart forever And wave their hands for a mute farewell. View quote
Jean Ingelow
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life. View quote
Jean Ingelow
The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. View quote
Jean Ingelow
It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life. View quote
Jean Ingelow
[H]e could not escape thinking of her, being the slave for the moment of every pretty girl. Good young men generally are. View quote
Jean Ingelow
The human mind is always inexorable in demanding a motive for all human actions. It is only himself that each man permits to act without one, and avails himself of the privilege with astonishing frequency. View quote
Jean Ingelow
Divine Love came down to take on itself our sins, but there is no Saviour to do the like for our mistakes. View quote
Jean Ingelow
I do not know why a girl should be expected to talk well till she is at least twenty. There cannot be much in her, she may be prettily exacting, or charmingly modest, but her attractions must be personal, not intellectual. (Jean Ingelow)
A man can sometimes hold his own with one woman, but never with two. View quote
Jean Ingelow
Is it what we impart, or impute to nature from ourselves, that we chiefly lean upon? or does she truly impart of what is really in her to us? View quote
Jean Ingelow
I'm like a good clock, I neither gain nor lose. I can strike, too. View quote
Jean Ingelow
It would be hard to say of any man that he is never right. If he is always thinking that he has forgotten a certain lady, surely he is right sometimes. View quote
Jean Ingelow