"We have used the Bible as if it……" — Charles Kingsley
"We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded."
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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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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
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What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and…
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
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Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.
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Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
— Aeschylus
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I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not…
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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and…
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws…
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
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