Jean Ingelow Quotes

In general, the woman bears the small misfortunes and continued disappointments of life best, and the man bears best the great ones.

Divine Love came down to take on itself our sins, but there is no Saviour to do the like for our mistakes.

To bear, to nurse, to rear,
To watch and then to lose:
To see my bright ones disappear,
Drawn up like morning dews.

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

Let me be only sure; for sooth to tell
The sorest dole is doubt.

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.

I am always finding out more reasons for loving you. If you send me out to walk among the rose-trees I shall find them in the shadows at their roots, and in the rain-drops that they shake from their buds. All the reading in the book of my life is about you, and the world outside tells me of you. Things fair and young and good I must needs love, because they are like you; there is pity in me, and I find a pathos in what is unlovely and old, because it is unlike.

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

It would be very unlucky for cats if people in a body should discover how much more jolly it was to be out in the warm golden mist of moonlight, when all was so fresh and sweet, than tucked up in their heated bedrooms under the low ceiling that shuts out the stars.

[O]ne must have a certain amount of both intelligence and knowledge to be amazed even at the most extraordinary things.

There is nothing so unreasonable as infancy, excepting the maturer stages of life.

And we do want poetry for its beauty […] Yes, only for its beauty; for its moral power over us—its teaching, comforting, and elevating power all depend on its beauty.

Is there never a chink in the world above
Where they listen for words from below?

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.

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