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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
Charles Kingsley
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Charles Kingsley
Age: 55 †
Born: 1819
Born: June 12
Died: 1875
Died: January 23
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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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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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All but God is changing day by day.
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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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Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones.
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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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Nothing is so infectious as example.
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For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.
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Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
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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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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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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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If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands
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See the land, her Easter keeping, Rises as her Maker rose. Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping, Burst at last from winter snows. Earth with heaven above rejoices.
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He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.
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