01c. 1847 ADO Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!Charles Kingsley / quote ↗
03c. 1847 ADBe good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand sweet song.Charles Kingsley / quote ↗
04c. 1847 ADThe world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again.Charles Kingsley / quote ↗
05c. 1847 ADCheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.Charles Kingsley / quote ↗
06c. 1847 ADThere are two freedoms,—the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.Charles Kingsley / quote ↗
08c. 1847 ADMen must work, and women must weep, / Though storms be sudden, and waters deep, / And the harbour bar be moaning.Charles Kingsley / quote ↗
09c. 1847 ADWulf died, as he had lived, a heathen. Placidia, who loved him well, as she loved all righteous and noble souls, had succeeded once in persuading him to accept baptism. Adolf himself acted as one of his sponsors; and the old warrior was in the act of stepping into the font, when he turned suddenly to the bishop and asked, ‘Where were the souls of his heathen ancestors?’ “In hell,” replied the worthy prelate. Wulf drew back from the font, and threw his bearskin cloak around him—“He would prefer, if Adolf had no objection, to go to his own people.” And so he died unbaptized, and went to his own place.Charles Kingsley / quote ↗
10c. 1847 ADI should like to make every man, woman, and child discontented with themselves, even as I am discontented with myself. I should like to waken in them, about their physical, their intellectual, their moral condition, that divine discontent which is the parent, first of upward aspiration and then of self-control, thought, effort to fulfil that aspiration even in part. For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.Charles Kingsley / quote ↗
11c. 1847 ADOur wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.Charles Kingsley / quote ↗
12c. 1847 ADGrandeur * * * consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof.Charles Kingsley / quote ↗
13c. 1847 ADNight's son was driving His golden-haired horses up; Over the eastern firths High flashed their manes.Charles Kingsley / quote ↗
14c. 1847 ADOh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze; Like children with violets playing, In the shade of the whispering trees.Charles Kingsley / quote ↗
15c. 1847 ADPossession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.Charles Kingsley / quote ↗
16c. 1847 ADThose clouds are angels' robes.—That fiery west Is paved with smiling faces.Charles Kingsley / quote ↗
17c. 1847 ADOh! 't is easy To beget great deeds; but in the rearing of them— The threading in cold blood each mean detail, And furze brake of half-pertinent circumstance— There lies the self-denial.Charles Kingsley / quote ↗
18c. 1847 ADA garden, sir, Wherein all rainbowed flowers were heaped together.Charles Kingsley / quote ↗
19c. 1847 ADOne kiss—and then another—and another— Till 't is too late to go—and so return.Charles Kingsley / quote ↗
20c. 1847 ADPossession means to sit astride of the world, Instead of having it astride of you.Charles Kingsley / quote ↗
22c. 1847 ADMarriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.Charles Kingsley / quote ↗
23c. 1847 ADSee the rivers, how they run, Changeless to the changeless sea.Charles Kingsley / quote ↗
24c. 1847 ADThank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you ... a hundred virtues which the idle never know.Charles Kingsley / quote ↗
