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)