"Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not……" — Charles Kingsley
"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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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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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty…
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Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes,…
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He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.
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I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in…
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Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.
— Aubrey Thomas de Vere
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Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a…
— B.F. Skinner
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Fear and faith have something in common. They both ask us to believe in something we cannot see.
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Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see…
— Albert Einstein
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Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one…
— Wayne Dyer
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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised…
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