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Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
Charles Kingsley
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Charles Kingsley
Age: 55 †
Born: 1819
Born: June 12
Died: 1875
Died: January 23
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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.
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Nothing like one honest look, one honest thought of Christ upon His cross. That tells us how much He has been through, how much He endured, how much He conquered, how much God loved us, who spared not His only begotten Son, but freely gave Him for us. Dare we doubt such a God? Dare we murmur against such a God?
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Because I believe in a God of absolute and unbounded love, therefore I believe in a loving anger of His which will and must devour and destroy all which is decayed, monstrous, abortive in His universe till all enemies shall be put under His feet, and God shall be all in all.
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Life is too short for mean anxieties.
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If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature and do what a little child could do — love.
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Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I
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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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Do today's duty, fight to-day's temptation and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things which you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them.
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For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
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Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.
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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.
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Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?
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Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.
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If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.
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And now I'm old and going--I'm sure I can't tell where One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there
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Grandeur . . . 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.
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The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men who went about their business with a smile on their faces and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men facing rough and smooth alike as it came.
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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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Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.
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All but God is changing day by day.
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