"We shall be made truly wise if we……" — Charles Kingsley
"We shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand-the habit of mind which theologians call, and rightly, faith in God."
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98 Quotes by Charles Kingsley
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