Charles Kingsley Quotes

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• Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
• Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
• A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.
• 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…
• He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
• The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.
• Make it a rule and pray to God to help you keep it . . . never, if possible, to lie down at night without…
• Those clouds are angels' robes.
• 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…
• [At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric…
• For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
• [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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.
• Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.
• Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.
• 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…
• 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…

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