Charles Kingsley Quotes - Page 2

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• Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

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  Motivational, Brother, Book

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• He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

  Charles Kingsley

  Sarcastic, Power, Men

  Charles Kingsley (1855). “Westward ho!: The voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth”, p.20

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• Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.

  Charles Kingsley

  Music, Angel, Speech

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.87, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Have charity; have patience; have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, or weak--above all, any little child--to shame and confusion of face. Never by petulance, by suspicion, by ridicule, even by selfish and silly haste--never, above all, by indulging in the devilish pleasure of a sneer--crush what is finest and rouse up what is coarsest in the heart of any fellow-creature.

  Charles Kingsley

  Crush, Children, Selfish

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.253, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.

  Charles Kingsley

  Mean, World, Possession

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Saint's Tragedy: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.17, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of a few great ecclesiastics, but on the faith and virtue of its individual members.

  Charles Kingsley

  Church, Holiness, Virtue

  Charles Kingsley (1856). “Hypatia ... The second edition”, p.11

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• Life is too short for mean anxieties.

  Charles Kingsley

  Life Is Too Short, Mean, Worry

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.164, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Do noble things, not dream them all day long.

  Charles Kingsley

  Dream, Long, Noble

  'A Farewell' (1858)

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• Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.

  Charles Kingsley

  Military, War, Rain

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Out of the Deep: Words for the Sorrowful: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

  Charles Kingsley

  Procrastination, Waiting, Return

  Charles Kingsley (1873). “Selections from Some of the Writings of the Rev. C. Kingsley, M.A.”, p.143

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• I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do.

  Charles Kingsley

  Effort, World, Ifs

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• If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

  Charles Kingsley

  Humorous, Hands, Ifs And

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• Nothing like one honest look, one honest thought of Christ upon His cross. That tells us how much He has been through, how much He endured, how much He conquered, how much God loved us, who spared not His only begotten Son, but freely gave Him for us. Dare we doubt such a God? Dare we murmur against such a God?

  Charles Kingsley

  Son, Doubt, Looks

  Charles Kingsley (1860). “The Good News of God: Sermons”, p.262

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• Those clouds are angels' robes.

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  Angel, Clouds, Robes

  Charles Kingsley (1875). “Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, &c”, p.34

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• Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

  Charles Kingsley

  Wise, Wine, Old Friends

  Charles Kingsley (1831). “Hereward the Wake, "Last of the English".”, p.110

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• Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a person is to be good, even though they were never to be rewarded for it.

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  Beautiful, Honor, World

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• Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

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  Friendship, Best Friend, Glasses

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• It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

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  Friendship, True Friend, Mean

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

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  Smell, Feelings, Chemicals

  Charles Kingsley (1890). “Two Years Ago”, London Macmillan 1890.

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• Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.

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  Music, Heart, Men

  Charles Kingsley (1873). “Selections from Some of the Writings of the Rev. C. Kingsley, M.A.”, p.35

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• Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

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  Pain, Reality, Evil

  Charles Kingsley (1872). “Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, Etc”, p.243

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• I have fought my fight, I have lived my life,
  I have drunk my share of wine;
  From Trier to Coln there was never a knight
  Led a merrier life than mine.

  Charles Kingsley

  Life, Wine, Fighting

  Charles Kingsley (1872). “Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, Etc”, p.287

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• Toil is the true knight's pastime.

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  Knights, Toil, Pastime

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Saint's Tragedy: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.30, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Madame Nature allows no dangerous classes, in the modern sense. She has, doubtless for some wise reason, no mercy for the weak. She rewards each organism according to its works; and if anything grows too weak or stupid to take care of itself, she gives it its due deserts by letting it die and disappear.

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  Wise, Nature, Stupid

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Scientific Lectures and Essays”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones.

  Charles Kingsley

  Nature, Law, Invisible

  "Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography".

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