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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.

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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