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Men Quotes by Charles Kingsley
- Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.
- My friends, let us try to follow the Saviour's steps; let us remember all day long what it is to be men; that it is…
- The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees the inside. The…
- Men must work, and women must weep.
- Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those conceptions of form…
- So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.
- [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…
- 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…
- Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and…
- Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.
- 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…
- 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…
- There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do…
- 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…
- There is a great deal of human nature in man.
- Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who…
- Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now…
- You must not say that this cannot be, or that that is contrary to nature. You do not know what Nature is, or what she…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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