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Charles Kingsley
Age: 55 †
Born: 1819
Born: June 12
Died: 1875
Died: January 23
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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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If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands
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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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Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
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Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I
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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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In proportion as man gets back the spirit of manliness, which is self-sacrifice, affection, loyalty loan idea beyond himself, a God above himself, so far will he rise above circumstances, and wield them at his will.
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Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze Like children with violets playing, In the shade of the whispering trees.
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Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
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What is the commonest, and yet the least remembered form of heroism? The heroism of an average mother. Ah! when I think of that broad fact I gather hope again for poor humanity, and this dark world looks bright, this diseased world looks wholesome to me once more, because, whatever else it is or is not full of, it is at least full of mothers.
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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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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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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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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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Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?
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If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world would understand, though they might not appreciate. The perfectly popular style is the perfectly scientific one. To me an obscurity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.
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For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
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Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
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Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.
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I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.
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