Jean Ingelow: Man

Jean Ingelow was British writer. Explore interesting quotes on man.

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“Man dwells apart, though not alone,
He walks among his peers unread;
The best of thoughts which he hath known
For lack of listeners are not said.”

"Afterthought", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“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.”

Story of Doom (1867), Book VII, line 271.

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

Source: Don John (1881), Ch. 6, p. 74.

“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.”

Source: Sarah de Berenger: A Novel (1879), Ch. 11, p. 134.

“A man can sometimes hold his own with one woman, but never with two.”

Source: John Jerome: His Thoughts and Ways (1886), Ch. 12, p. 207.

“A man's world, but woman bides her time.”

Source: John Jerome: His Thoughts and Ways (1886), Ch. 7, p. 107.

“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.”

Source: Fated to Be Free: A Novel (1875), Ch. 9, p. 113.

“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)