"Did not learned men, too, hold, till within……" — Charles Kingsley
"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 know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist."
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Charles Kingsley
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98 Quotes by Charles Kingsley
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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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A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.
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The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about…
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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
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The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.
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Make it a rule and pray to God to help you keep it . . . never, if possible, to…
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Those clouds are angels' robes.
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Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more…
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[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan…
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For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
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[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come,…
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Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is…
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Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.
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I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough.…
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'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer…
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It's nothing to be ashamed of to have a stutter.
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I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man…
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to…
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
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I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take…
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