Jean Ingelow: Doing

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“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.”

Source: Don John (1881), Ch. 36, p. 382.

“[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.”

Source: Sarah de Berenger: A Novel (1879), Ch. 16, p. 198.

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

Source: Sarah de Berenger: A Novel (1879), Ch. 1, p. 15.

“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.”

Source: Off the Skelligs: A Novel (1872), Ch. 12, p. 188.

“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.”

"The Monitions of the Unseen", p. 31.
The Monitions of the Unseen (1871)

“Learn that to love is the one way to know,
Or God or man: it is not love received
That maketh man to know the inner life
Of them that love him; his own love bestowed
Shall do it.”

"A Story of Doom", Book VII, p. 191.
A Story of Doom (1867)