CKCharles Kingsley

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Charles Kingsley

Life dates: 1819 AD — 1875 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1847 AD

If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch, you will make misery for yourself out of everything which God sends you: you will be as wretched as you choose.

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02c. 1847 AD

Yet ere we part, one lesson I can leave you For every day.... Be good.... Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand sweet song.

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03c. 1847 AD

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

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04c. 1847 AD

There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw who lived perhaps thousands of miles away, and yet these little sheets of paper speak to us, arouse us, teach us, open our hearts and in turn open their hearts to us like brothers. Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, philosophy lame.

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05c. 1847 AD

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

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06c. 1847 AD

Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.

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07c. 1847 AD

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

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08c. 1847 AD

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

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09c. 1847 AD

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

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10c. 1847 AD

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

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11c. 1847 AD

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from... human souls we never saw... And yet these arouse us terrify us teach us comfort us open their hearts to us as brothers.

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12c. 1847 AD

Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever.

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13c. 1847 AD

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

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14c. 1847 AD

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

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15c. 1847 AD

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.

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16c. 1847 AD

Do noble things do not dream them all day long.

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17c. 1847 AD

Be good sweet maid and let who can be clever.

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18c. 1847 AD

There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

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19c. 1847 AD

Thank God ever morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.

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20c. 1847 AD

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them.

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21c. 1847 AD

And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.

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22c. 1847 AD

Do today's duty fight today's temptation do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see and could not understand if you saw them.

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23c. 1847 AD

The world is God's world after all.

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24c. 1847 AD

The 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 Sweet wife. No never come over again.

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