"Give me something huge to fight, — and……" — Charles Kingsley
"Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?"
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Charles Kingsley
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98 Quotes by Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley has 98 quotes on this site.
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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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More Dust Quotes
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one of 1,193 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
— Saint Augustine
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We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature;…
— Diane Ackerman
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I'm full of dust and guitars.
— Syd Barrett
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There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust…
— Standing Bear
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The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust…
— Annie Besant
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Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
— Ambrose Bierce
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You either make dust or eat dust.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
— Lord Byron
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We need responsible regulations, not regulations that have gone wild. For example, the EPA has a rule that is going…
— Herman Cain
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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances,…
— Italo Calvino
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Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the…
— George Carlin
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
— Thomas Carlyle
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