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• And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where;
  One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there

  Charles Kingsley

  Age, Comfort, World

  Charles Kingsley (1858). “Andromeda: And Other Poems”, p.94

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• For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.

  Charles Kingsley

  Life, Sleep, Men

  Charles Kingsley (1872). “Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, Etc”, p.212

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• Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those conceptions of form and number which every human being possesses; and any person of average intellect can make himself a fair mathematician if he will only pay continuous attention; in plain English, think enough about the subject.

  Charles Kingsley

  Science, Men, Thinking

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Scientific Lectures and Essays”, p.93, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

  Charles Kingsley

  Truth, Sake, Virtue

  Reviewing J. A. Froude's History of England, in 'Macmillan's Magazine' January 1864

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• Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?

  Charles Kingsley

  Fighting, Dust, Giving

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.204, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The righteousness which is by faith in Christ is a loving heart and a loving life, which every man will long to lead who believes really in Jesus Christ.

  Charles Kingsley

  Jesus, Believe, Heart

  Charles Kingsley (1859). “The Good News of God: Sermons”, p.42

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• Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.

  Charles Kingsley

  Men, Holy, Goodness

  Charles Kingsley (1874). “David: Five Sermons”, p.12

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• And no one has the right to say that no water-babies exist, till they have seen no water-babies existing; which is quite a different thing, mind, from not seeing water-babies; and a thing which nobody ever did, or perhaps will ever do. But surely ... they would have put it into spirits, or into the Illustrated News, or perhaps cut it into two halves, poor dear little thing, and sent one to Professor Owen, and one to Professor Huxley, to see what they would each say about it.

  Charles Kingsley

  Baby, Science, Cutting

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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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• 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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• It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.

  Charles Kingsley

  Lions, Said

  Charles Kingsley (1855). “Westward Ho!: Or, 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.105, [s.n.]

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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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• 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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• My friends, let us try to follow the Saviour's steps; let us remember all day long what it is to be men; that it is to have every one whom we meet for our brother in the sight of God; that it is this, never to meet anyone, however bad he may be, for whom we cannot say: "Christ died for that man, and Christ cares for him still. He is precious in God's eyes, and he shall be precious in mine also".

  Charles Kingsley

  Brother, Eye, Men

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• A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

  Charles Kingsley

  Men, Drawing, Gentleman

  Charles Kingsley (2016). “The Water Babies”, p.82, Charles Kingsley

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• Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?

  Charles Kingsley

  Soul, Youth, Mercy

  Charles Kingsley (1858). “Andromeda: And Other Poems”, p.22

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• There is a great deal of human nature in man.

  Charles Kingsley

  Nature, Men, Deals

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Good News of God: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.231, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In the light of fuller day,
  Of purer science, holier laws.

  Charles Kingsley

  Science, Light, Law

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Andromeda and Other Poems: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.166, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

  Charles Kingsley

  Dream, Men, Earth

  Charles Kingsley (1848). “Politics for the People”, p.30

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• A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.

  Charles Kingsley

  Flower, Garden, Rainbow

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• Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.

  Charles Kingsley

  Self, Long, Miracle

  Charles Kingsley, Frederick Denison Maurice (1848). “The Saint's Tragedy; Or the True Story of Elizabeth of Hungary, Landgravine of Thuringia: Saint of the Romish Calendar. With a Preface by Professor Maurice”, p.126

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• If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.

  Charles Kingsley

  Party, Politics, Hearted

  Charles Kingsley, Maurice Kingsley (1903). “The Novels, Poems, and Memories of Charles Kingsley: Letters and memories”

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• For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

  Charles Kingsley

  Science, Rewards, Virtue

  "Health and Education, Science", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, pp. 691-92, 1922.

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• Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His mercy is over all His works.

  Charles Kingsley

  Comfort, May, Littles

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Good News of God: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.473, ReadHowYouWant.com

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