Jane Taylor

Jane Taylor (September 23, 1783 – April 13, 1824) was an English poet and novelist. Her sister was Ann Taylor.

Quotes

• Are we not children, all of us?
  • Last Words, quoted in Famous Sayings and their Authors, p. 7

• Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
  How I wonder what you are,
  Up above the world so high,
  Like a diamond in the sky!
  • "The Star," from Original Poems for Infant Minds (1804).

• I thank the goodness and the grace
  Which on my birth have smiled,
  And made me in these Christian days,
  A happy English child.
  • "A Child's Hymn of Praise," from Hymns for Infant Minds (1810).

• 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!
  • "Prejudice", stanza 45, in Essays in Rhyme on Morals and Manners (London: Taylor and Hessey, 1816), p. 36.

• Far from mortal cares retreating,
  Sordid hopes and vain desires,
  Here, our willing footsteps meeting,
  Every heart to heaven aspires.
  • Hymn, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• 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.
  • For a Very Little Child, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Bartlett's notes this work to be written by Ann Taylor.

Misattributed

• Who ran to help me when I fell,
  And would some pretty story tell,
  Or kiss the place to make it well?
  My mother.
  • Ann Taylor, "My Mother," from Original Poems for Infant Minds (1804)

• I love little pussy, her coat is so warm;
  And if I don't hurt her she'll do me no harm.
  • Anon, "Little Pussy," from Hints for the Formation of Infant Schools (1829)

External links

• Edward Latham: Famous Sayings And Their Authors, Second Edition, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain, 1906