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Charles Kingsley
English
Clergyman
About the author
Do noble things, not dream them all day long.
Charles Kingsley,
English
Clergyman
#Day
#Dream
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Charles Kingsley,
English
Clergyman
#Work
#Will
#Strength
#Being
#Self
#Content
#Diligence
#Cheerfulness
#Temperance
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
Charles Kingsley,
English
Clergyman
#Will
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley,
English
Clergyman
A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
Charles Kingsley,
English
Clergyman
#Bible
#May
#London
#Gentleman
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
Charles Kingsley,
English
Clergyman
#Man
#Friend
#Woman
#Trust
#Soul
#Faults
Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.
Charles Kingsley,
English
Clergyman
#Evil
#Pain
Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
Charles Kingsley,
English
Clergyman
#Feelings
Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
Charles Kingsley,
English
Clergyman
#God
#Work
#Will
#Tools
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Charles Kingsley,
English
Clergyman
#Friendship
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.
Charles Kingsley,
English
Clergyman
#Past
#Earth
#Spirit
#Wrong
#Age
#Chivalry
#Romance
The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
Charles Kingsley,
English
Clergyman
#World
#Rain
#Yesterday
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
Charles Kingsley,
English
Clergyman
#Man
There is a great deal of human nature in man.
Charles Kingsley,
English
Clergyman
#Nature
#Human nature
There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.
Charles Kingsley,
English
Clergyman
#Day
#Kindness
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.
Charles Kingsley,
English
Clergyman
#Life
#Comfort
#Luxury
#Act
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.
Charles Kingsley,
English
Clergyman
#Bible
#Burden
#Opium
Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.
Charles Kingsley,
English
Clergyman
#Day
#Blood
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
Charles Kingsley,
English
Clergyman
#Power
#Men
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
Charles Kingsley,
English
Clergyman
#Nothing
#Man
#Living