Jean Ingelow Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

I am athirst for God, the living God.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow.

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

Tears are the showers that fertilize this world.

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

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

People newly emerged from obscurity generally launch out into indiscriminate display.

There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven.

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

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

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.

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

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

Children bring their own love with them when they come.