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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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Charles Kingsley
Age: 55 †
Born: 1819
Born: June 12
Died: 1875
Died: January 23
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Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.
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Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each time, till as it were the panting earth, worn out with the fierce passions of her fiery youth, has sobbed herself to sleep once more, and this new world of man is made.
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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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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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Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.
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Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.
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It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.
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It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.
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Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?
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And how high is Christ's cross? As high as the highest heaven, and the throne of God, and the bosom of the Father that bosom out of which forever proceed all created things. Ay, as high as the highest heaven! for if you will receive it when Christ hung upon the cross, heaven came down on earth, and earth ascended into heaven.
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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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A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.
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What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.
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So fleet the works of men, back to their earth againAncient and holy things fade like a dream.
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Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.
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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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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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Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland.
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