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Poet, King, Novelist
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βHow short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful!β
How long the sorrowful!β
βLet me be only sure; for sooth to tell
The sorest dole is doubt.β
The sorest dole is doubt.β
βAnd sweeter woman ne'er drew breath
Than my sonne's wife, Elizabeth.β
Than my sonne's wife, Elizabeth.β
βI have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.β
βThere is nothing so unreasonable as infancy, excepting the maturer stages of life.β
β"I'm like a good clock," said Crayshaw, "I neither gain nor lose. I can strike, too."β
βOur own faces, seen suddenly, will sometimes tell us things concerning ourselves that we did not suspect before.β
β[O]ne must have a certain amount of both intelligence and knowledge to be amazed even at the most extraordinary things.β
β[U]gliness of the right sort is a kind of beauty. It has some of the best qualities of beautyβit attracts observation and fixes the memory.β
βIs 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?β
β[T]his is a woman-ridden age. Yet it is but fair to confess that all the former ones were man-ridden ages. What we want is a happy proportion.β
βI 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.β
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.β
βWhen 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.β
Though they be good and humble, one should mind
How they are reared, or some will go astray
And shame their mother.β
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Jean Ingelow on Flowers 5 quotes
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βI have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.β
Jean Ingelow on Fools 2 quotes
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βAgainst her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.β
Jean Ingelow on Discord 2 quotes
βAn old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.β
Jean Ingelow on Sorrow 2 quotes
βSorrows humanize our race; Tears are the showers that fertilize this world.β
Jean Ingelow on Roses 2 quotes
βAnd the guelder rose In a great stillness dropped, and ever dropped, Her wealth about her feet.β
Jean Ingelow on Time
βHow short our happy days appear! How long the sorrowful!β
Jean Ingelow on Daffodils
β"O fateful flower beside the rillβ The Daffodil, the daffodil!"β
Jean Ingelow on Failure
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