Jane Taylor Quotes
Jane Taylor offers whimsical, thoughtful verses that echo childhood wonder, caring reflections, and quiet faith.
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Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are, Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky!
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I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me in these Christian days, A happy English child.
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Though man a thinking being is defined, Few use the grand prerogative of mind. How few think justly of the thinking few! How many never think, who think they do!
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Far from mortal cares retreating, Sordid hopes and vain desires, Here, our willing footsteps meeting, Every heart to heaven aspires.
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Oh that it were my chief delight To do the things I ought! Then let me try with all my might To mind what I am taught.
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Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.
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I love little pussy, her coat is so warm; And if I don't hurt her she'll do me no harm.
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“One honest John Tompkins, a hedger & ditcher, Although he was poor, did not want to be richer; For all such vain wishes in him were prevented By a fortunate habit of being contented.”
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“What a man soweth, the same shall he reap.”
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These slight disappointments are sent to prepare For what may hereafter befall;For seasons of real disappointment and care,Which commonly happen to all
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“Not all the fine things that fine ladies possess Should teach them the poor to despise; For 'tis good manners, and not in good dress, That the truest gentility lies.”
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“Why must I hear, in summer evenings fine, A thousand happier birds in merry choirs? And I, poor lonely I, in grief repine, Caged by these wooden walls and golden wires!”