"Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily……" — Charles Kingsley
"Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming."
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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 Bodily Quotes
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
— Samuel Butler
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily…
— Karlheinz Deschner
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The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. If the resurrection did not…
— Henry M. Morris
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A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with…
— John Climacus
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Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant…
— William Butler Yeats
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It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education;…
— Sissela Bok
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The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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