Top 100 Charles Kingsley Quotes
#1. Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.
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#2. I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.
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#3. Whatever may be the mysteries of life and death, there is one mystery which the cross of Christ reveals to us, and that is the infinite and absolute goodness of God. Let all the rest remain a mystery so long as the mystery of the cross of Christ gives us faith for all the rest.
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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.
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#7. Oh, don't hurt me!" cried Tom. "I only want to look at you; you are so handsome.
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#8. Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.
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#9. How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?
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#11. 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.
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#13. I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do.
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#14. 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.
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#15. 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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#16. For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
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#17. Stop!" said the Irishwoman. "I have one more word for you both; for you will both see me again before all is over. Those that wish to be clean, clean they will be; and those that wish to be foul, foul they will be. Remember.
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#19. [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 ...
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#20. 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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#21. Science frees us in many ways ... from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.
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#22. I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences.
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#23. 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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#24. [ ... ] his little whirl-about of a head was so full of the notion of going out to see the world, that it forgot her in five minutes: however, though his head forgot her, I am glad to say his heart did not.
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#25. Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him
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#26. 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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#27. 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.
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#28. Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, he asks of thee works first and words after.
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#29. Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.
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#30. Every duty that is bidden to wait comes back with seven fresh duties at its back.
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#31. There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.
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#32. 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?
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#33. Nature's deepest laws, her own true laws, are her invisible ones.
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#35. Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?
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#36. This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.
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#37. All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge, where salmon wait for Autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west.
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#38. 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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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
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#45. The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.
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#47. The heroism of the average mother. Ah! When I think of that broad fact, I gather hope again for poor humanity; and this dark world looks bright ... because, whatever else it is not full of, it is at least full of mothers.
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#48. For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.
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#49. A great man of science ... knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg does not turn into a crocodile and two or three other little things."
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#51. I want you to look and think. I want every one to look and think. Half the misery in the world comes first from not looking, and then from not thinking. And I do not want you to be miserable.
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#52. Give me something huge to fight, - and I should enjoy that - but why make me sweep the dust?
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#53. 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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#54. Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.
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#55. Beauty is God's handwriting. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair day, every fair flower.
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#56. What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.
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#57. 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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#59. If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.
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#60. He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
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#61. Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.
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#62. We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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#63. 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.
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#65. 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.
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#66. Never, if possible, lie down at night without being able to say: I have made one human being at least a little wiser, or a little happier, or at least a little better this day.
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#67. 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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#68. It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.
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#69. You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.
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#70. The men whom I have seen succeed best in life have always 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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#71. Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
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#72. 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.
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#74. Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.
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#75. If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand - nature; and do what a little child could do - love.
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#76. Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.
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#77. 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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#78. 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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#79. The Water Babies "Young and Old" When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away: Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day.
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#80. 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.
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#81. 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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#82. See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last from winter snows. Earth with heaven above rejoices ...
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#85. I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science will be looked upon as a defect only second to ignorance of the primary laws of religion and morality.
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#86. 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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#87. So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.
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#89. 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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#90. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever
One grand, sweet song.
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#91. 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
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#93. 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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#94. Because I believe in a God of absolute and unbounded love, therefore I believe in a loving anger of His which will and must devour and destroy all which is decayed, monstrous, abortive in His universe till all enemies shall be put under His feet, and God shall be all in all.
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#95. O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!
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#96. I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.
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#97. A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.
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#98. 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.
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#100. 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.
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