Charles Kingsley Quotes - Page 6

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• Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high,
  But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I

  Charles Kingsley

  England, Wealth, Rich

  Charles Kingsley (1872). “Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, Etc”, p.230

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• Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.

  Charles Kingsley

  Roots, Law, Vaunt

  Charles Kingsley (1872). “Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, Etc”, p.53

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• And what is the joy of Christ? The joy and delight which springs forever in His great heart, from feeling that He is forever doing good; from loving all, and living for all; from knowing that if not all, yet millions on millions are grateful to Him, and will be forever.

  Charles Kingsley

  Spring, Grateful, Heart

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Good News of God: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.45, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny and the railroad, Cunard's liners and the electric telegraph, are to me, if not to you, signs that we are, on some points at least, in harmony with the universe; that there is a mighty spirit working among us, who cannot be your anarchic and destroying Devil, and therefore may be the Ordering and Creating God.

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  Creating, Giving, Miracle

  Charles Kingsley (1881). “The Works of Charles Kingsley: Yeast”

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• If thou art fighting against thy sins, so is God. On thy side is God who made all, and Christ who died for all and the Spirit who alone gives wisdom, purity, and nobleness.

  Charles Kingsley

  Art, Fighting, Giving

  Charles Kingsley (1859). “The Good News of God: Sermons”, p.275

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• See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last from winter snows. Earth with heaven above rejoices.

  Charles Kingsley

  Easter, Sleep, Winter

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Andromeda and Other Poems: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.229, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Therefore, let us be patient, patient; and let God our Father teach His own lesson, His own way. Let us try to learn it well and quickly; but do not let us fancy that He will ring the school-bell, and send us to play before our lesson is learnt.

  Charles Kingsley

  Letting Go, Patience, Father

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Out of the Deep: Words for the Sorrowful: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.65, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?

  Charles Kingsley

  School, Average, Long

  1863 The Water Babies, ch.8.

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• Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

  Charles Kingsley

  Sweet, Clever, Maids

  "A Farewell" l. 5 (1858)

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• There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

  Charles Kingsley

  Cat, Way, Killing

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• Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town.

  Charles Kingsley

  Children, Sailing, Towns

  'The Three Fishers'

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• Men must work, and women must weep.

  Charles Kingsley

  Work, Men

  'The Three Fishers'

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• The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees the inside. The angler only is brought close, face to face with the flower and bird and insect life of the rich riverbanks, the only part of the landscape where the hand of man has never interfered.

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  Country, Flower, Men

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Prose Idylls: New and Old: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

  Charles Kingsley

  Men, Soul, Favors

  Charles Kingsley (1889). “Works”

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• Oh! that we two were Maying
  Down the stream of the soft spring breeze;
  Like children with violets playing,
  In the shade of the whispering trees.

  Charles Kingsley

  Children, Spring, Two

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Saint's Tragedy: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.111, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more outside respectability, he is just the old man, the same character at heart he ever was?

  Charles Kingsley

  Religious, Heart, Character

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Good News of God: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.125, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In the four hundred and thirteenth year of the Christian era, some three hundred miles above Alexandria, the young monk Philammon was sitting on the edge of a low range of inland cliffs, crested with drifting sand.

  Charles Kingsley

  Christian, Book, Years

  Charles Kingsley (1856). “Hypatia ... The second edition”, p.1

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• Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.

  Charles Kingsley

  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

  'The Three Fishers'

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• Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

  Charles Kingsley

  Dog, Swans, Blood

  Charles Kingsley, “Young And Old”

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• Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.

  Charles Kingsley

  Dream, Song, Sweet

  Charles Kingsley (1877). “Favorite Poems”, p.21

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• Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

  Charles Kingsley

  Voice, Heaven, Duty

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.93, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.

  Charles Kingsley

  Dog, Lame, Dull

  'Letter to Thomas Hughes'

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• The Water Babies "Young and Old" When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away: Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day.

  Charles Kingsley

  Dog, Baby, Horse

  The Water Babies "Young and Old" l. 1 (1863)

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