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Charles Kingsley
Age: 55 †
Born: 1819
Born: June 12
Died: 1875
Died: January 23
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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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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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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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Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.
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Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof.
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Therefore, let us be patient, patient and let God our Father teach His own lesson, His own way. Let us try to learn it well and quickly but do not let us fancy that He will ring the school-bell, and send us to play before our lesson is learnt.
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No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.
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Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.
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Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
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If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands
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If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.
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Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows He knows Himself and you and me and all things and His mercy is over all His works.
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Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.
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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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Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.
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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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Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?
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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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For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.
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Men must work, and women must weep.
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