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Charles Kingsley
Age: 55 †
Born: 1819
Born: June 12
Died: 1875
Died: January 23
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I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.
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Men must work, and women must weep.
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For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.
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Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
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Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.
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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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For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.
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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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[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm.
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Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more outside respectability, he is just the old man, the same character at heart he ever was?
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It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.
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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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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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All but God is changing day by day.
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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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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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Study nature as the countenance of God.
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Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
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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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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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