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I don't want to die. But I want to be dead. — Jean Ingelow

We wish for more in life rather than more of it. — Jean Ingelow

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

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

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

For hearts where wakened love doth lurk,
How fine, how blest a thing is work!
For work does good when reasons fail. — Jean Ingelow

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

Children bring their own love with them when they come. — Jean Ingelow

Tears are the showers that fertilize this world ... — Jean Ingelow

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

O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile:
So have all sages said, all poets sung. — Jean Ingelow

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

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

Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod. — Jean Ingelow

From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love
To long for, pureness to desire, a mount
Of consecration it were good to scale. — Jean Ingelow

When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries. — Jean Ingelow

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

Quoth the Ocean, Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land. — Jean Ingelow

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

A birthday:-and now a day that rose
With much of hope, with meaning rife-
A thoughtful day from dawn to close:
The middle day of human life. — Jean Ingelow

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

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

Reign, and keep life in this our deep desireOur only greatness is that we aspire. — Jean Ingelow

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

I am athirst for God, the living God. — Jean Ingelow

And the guelder rose
In a great stillness dropped, and ever dropped,
Her wealth about her feet. — Jean Ingelow

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

How short our happy days appear!
How long the sorrowful! — Jean Ingelow

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. — Jean Ingelow

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

Work is its own best earthly meed,
Else have we none more than the sea-born throng
Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar. — Jean Ingelow

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

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