Jean Ingelow: Quotes about life

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

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

Fated to be Free (1875)

“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.”

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

“It seemed proper indeed to crowd the pages with children, for in real life they run all over; the world is covered thickly with the prints of their little footsteps, though, as a rule, books written for grown-up people are kept almost clear of them.”

The Preface to the American edition of Fated to be Free (1875)

“Reign, and keep life in this our deep desire
Our only greatness is that we aspire.”

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

“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.

“Like coral insects multitudinous
The minutes are whereof our life is made.
They build it up as in the deep's blue shade
It grows, it comes to light, and then, and thus
For both there is an end.”

"Work", line 1, p. 54.
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)