Quote#Nature
Is it what we impart, or impute to nature from ourselves, that we…
Quote byJean Ingelow · 1820–1897
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Fated to Be Free: A Novel (1875), Ch. 25, p. 315..
English (original)
Is it what we impart, or impute to nature from ourselves, that we chiefly lean upon? or does she truly impart of what is really in her to us?
— Jean Ingelow
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