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• A fine lady; by which term I wish to express the result of that perfect education in taste and manner, down to every gesture, which heaven forbid that I, professing to be a poet, should undervalue. It is beautiful, and therefore I welcome it in the name of the author of all beauty. I value it so highly that I would fain see it extend not merely from Belgravia to the tradesman's villa, but thence, as I believe it one day will, to the laborer's hovel and the needlewoman's garret.

  Charles Kingsley

  Beautiful, Believe, Names

  Charles Kingsley (1862). “Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiograhpy”, p.117

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• You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

  Charles Kingsley

  Best Friend, Character, Cute Friendship

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• For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

  Charles Kingsley

  Noble, Firsts, Germs

  'Health and Education' (1874) p. 20

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• We shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand-the habit of mind which theologians call, and rightly, faith in God.

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  Faith, Wise, Mind

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Scientific Lectures and Essays”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof.

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  Eye, Two, Curves

  Charles Kingsley (1859). “Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other Papers”, p.405

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• Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their di- vineness by sick-beds and in every-day work, and do not darken your mind with intellectual puzzles, which may breed disbelief, but can never breed vital religion or practical usefulness.

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  Truth, Sick, Mind

  Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

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• What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.

  Charles Kingsley

  Want

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• I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences.

  Charles Kingsley

  God, Believe, Special

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.41, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• These glorious things-words-are man's right alone...Without words we should know no more of each other's hearts and thoughts than the dog knows of his fellow dog....for, if you will consider, you always think to yourself in words, though you do not speak them aloud; and without them all our thoughts would be mere blind longings, feelings which we could not understand ourselves.

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  Dog, Heart, Men

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• Pray over every truth; for though the renewed heart is not "desperately wicked," it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.

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  Truth, Heart, Wicked

  Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world would understand, though they might not appreciate. The perfectly popular style is the perfectly scientific one. To me an obscurity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.

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  Expression, Appreciate, Style

  Charles Kingsley (1877). “Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.56

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• After all, there is such a thing as looking like a gentleman. There are men whose class no dirt or rags can hide, any more than they could Ulysses. I have seen such men in plenty among workmen, too; but, on the whole, the gentleman--by whom I do not mean just now the rich--have the superiority in that point. But not, please God, forever. Give us the same air, water, exercise, education, good society, and you will see whether this "haggardness," this "coarseness" (etc., for the list is too long to specify), be an accident, or a property, of the man of the people.

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  Mean, Exercise, Men

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• O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!

  Charles Kingsley

  Home, Sand, Mary

  'The Sands of Dee'

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• [The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm.

  Charles Kingsley

  Queens, Science, Years

  Charles Kingsley (2016). “The Water Babies”, p.59, Charles Kingsley

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• [A]ll the ingenious men, and all the scientific men, and all the fanciful men, in the world,... could never invent, if all their wits were boiled into one, anything so curious and so ridiculous as a lobster.

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  Science, Men, Lobster

  Charles Kingsley (2013). “The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life under the tropic forest, Isis shall for a moment lift her sacred veil, and show him, once and for ever, the thing he dreamed not of; some law, or even mere hint of a law, explaining one fact; but explaining with it a thousand more, connecting them all with each other and with the mighty whole, till order and meaning shoots through some old Chaos of scattered observations.

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  Science, Men, Isis

  Charles Kingsley (1873). “Selections from Some of the Writings of the Rev. C. Kingsley, M.A.”, p.336

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• You are literally filled with the fruit of your own devices, with rats and mice and such small deer, paramecia, and entomostraceæ, and kicking things with horrid names, which you see in microscopes at the Polytechnic, and rush home and call for brandy-without the water-stone, and gravel, and dyspepsia, and fragments of your own muscular tissue tinged with your own bile.

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  Home, Science, Names

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• The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.

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  Angel, Names, Bed

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• Love can make us fiends as well as angels.

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  Love, Angel, Wells

  Charles Kingsley (1875). “Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, &c”, p.95

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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.

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  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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• No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.

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  Simple, Plagiarism, Thinker

  Charles Kingsley (1859). “Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time: With Other Papers”, p.366

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

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  Dog, Swans, Blood

  Charles Kingsley, “Young And Old”

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• We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.

  Charles Kingsley

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.

  Charles Kingsley

  Equality, Justice, Ants

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Scientific Lectures and Essays: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.218, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.

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  Discovery, Water, Mind

  Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke (fict. name.) (1862). “Alton Locke”, p.21

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