"For science is ... like virtue, its own……" — Charles Kingsley
"For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward."
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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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[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come,…
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You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which…
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
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