"He was not only, I soon discovered, a……" — Charles Kingsley
"He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind."
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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 Clearness Quotes
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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and…
— Benjamin Franklin
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To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening,…
— Charles Dickens
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of…
— Hippocrates
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Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning…
— John Stuart Mill
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I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend
— John Gresham Machen
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Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a…
— Augustus William Hare
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There is in the chemist a form of thought by which all ideas become visible in the mind as strains…
— Justus von Liebig
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Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I…
— Harry Gordon Selfridge
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Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it…
— Rene Descartes
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We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
— William Shakespeare
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