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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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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.

Charles Kingsley

Creating, Giving, Miracle

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

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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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Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.

Charles Kingsley

Heaven, Earth, Lasts

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It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe. And it is true that you may see simple laboring men as thorough gentlemen as any duke, simply because they have learned to fear God; and, fearing him, to restrain themselves, which is the very root and essence of all good breeding.

Charles Kingsley

Simple, Men, Europe

Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Gospel of the Pentateuch: A Set of Parish Sermons: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.59, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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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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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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Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back sixteen years, to the days when Whitbury boasted of forty coaches per diem, instead of one railway, and set forth how in its southern suburb, there stood two pleasant house side by side, with their gardens sloping down to the Whit, and parted from each other only by the high brick fruit-wall, through which there used to be a door of communication; for the two occupiers were fast friends.

Charles Kingsley

Wall, Book, Communication

Charles Kingsley (1860). “Two years ago ... Third edition”, p.18

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

Charles Kingsley

Angel, Names, Bed

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Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each time, till as it were the panting earth, worn out with the fierce passions of her fiery youth, has sobbed herself to sleep once more, and this new world of man is made.

Charles Kingsley

Fall, Passion, Sleep

Charles Kingsley (1860). “New miscellanies”, p.315

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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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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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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.

Charles Kingsley

Discovery, Water, Mind

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

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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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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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[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.

Charles Kingsley

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.

Charles Kingsley

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.

Charles Kingsley

Home, Science, Names

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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.

Charles Kingsley

Simple, Plagiarism, Thinker

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

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Love can make us fiends as well as angels.

Charles Kingsley

Love, Angel, Wells

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

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How many serious family quarrels, marriages out of spite, and alterations of wills, might have been prevented by a gentle dose of blue pill!-What awful instances of chronic dyspepsia in the characters of Hamlet and Othello! Banish dyspepsia and spirituous liquors from society, and you have no crime, or at least so little that you would not consider it worth mentioning.

Charles Kingsley

Character, Blue, Pills

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Born: June 12, 1819
Died: January 23, 1875
Occupation: Professor
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