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Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

Charles Kingsley

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Charles Kingsley
Age: 55 †
Born: 1819
Born: June 12
Died: 1875
Died: January 23
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Devonshire
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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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Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones.
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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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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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If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you you will be as wretched as you choose.
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Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.
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No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.
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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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So fleet the works of men, back to their earth againAncient and holy things fade like a dream.
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