Frases de Jean Ingelow (39 citas, página 2)

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“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.”

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

“O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep,
Thou bearest angels to us in the night,
Saints out of heaven with palms. Seen by thy light
Sorrow is some old tale that goeth not deep;
Love is a pouting child.”

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"Sleep (A Woman Speaks)", line 1, p. 98.
The Monitions of the Unseen (1871)

“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.”

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

“Our own faces, seen suddenly, will sometimes tell us things concerning ourselves that we did not suspect before.”

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Fuente: Off the Skelligs: A Novel (1872), Ch. 30, p. 560.

“[U]gliness of the right sort is a kind of beauty. It has some of the best qualities of beauty—it attracts observation and fixes the memory.”

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Fuente: Off the Skelligs: A Novel (1872), Ch. 18, p. 278.

“Work is its own best earthly need,
Else have we none more than the sea-born throng
Who wrought these marvellous isles that bloom afar.”

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"Work", line 12, p. 54.
The Monitions of the Unseen (1871)

“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.”

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"Work", line 1, p. 54.
The Monitions of the Unseen (1871)

“When 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.”

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"Gladys and Her Island", p. 238.
A Story of Doom (1867)

“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.”

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

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