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Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.

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Charles Kingsley
Age: 55 †
Born: 1819
Born: June 12
Died: 1875
Died: January 23
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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
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All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
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All but God is changing day by day.
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I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.
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Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.
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Oh! 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.
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O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!
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Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.
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In proportion as man gets back the spirit of manliness, which is self-sacrifice, affection, loyalty loan idea beyond himself, a God above himself, so far will he rise above circumstances, and wield them at his will.
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I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.
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Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
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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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Music has been called the speech of the angels I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.
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Whatever may be the mysteries of life and death, there is one mystery which the cross of Christ reveals to us, and that is the infinite and absolute goodness of God. Let all the rest remain a mystery so long as the mystery of the cross of Christ gives us faith for all the rest.
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Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows He knows Himself and you and me and all things and His mercy is over all His works.
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