Charles Kingsley Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.”
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“All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
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“There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.”
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“I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.”
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“Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.”
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“Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.”
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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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“Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.”
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“It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.”
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“Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.”
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“Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.”
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“The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.”
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“Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.”
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“All but God is changing day by day.”
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“Make it a rule and pray to God to help you keep it . . . never, if possible, to lie down at night without being able to say "I have made one human being at least a little wiser, a little happier, or a little better this day."”
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“If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.”
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“The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.”
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“Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.”
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“The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.”
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“Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.”
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“Do noble things, not dream them all day long.”
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“Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.”
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“Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.”
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“If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.”
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“Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.”
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“And how high is Christ's cross? As high as the highest heaven, and the throne of God, and the bosom of the Father that bosom out of which forever proceed all created things. Ay, as high as the highest heaven! for if you will receive it when Christ hung upon the cross, heaven came down on earth, and earth ascended into heaven.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences.”
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