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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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Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.
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We have used the Bible as if it was a mere special constable's handbook — an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they were being overloaded — a mere book to keep the poor in order.
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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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We shall be made truly wise if we be made content content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand-the habit of mind which theologians call, and rightly, faith in God.
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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.
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Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.
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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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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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For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
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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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All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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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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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.
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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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We ought to reverence books to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.
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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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