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All but God is changing day by day.

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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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Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.
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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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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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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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If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.
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I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science will be looked upon as a defect only second to ignorance of the primary laws of religion and morality.
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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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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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The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
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Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
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Study nature as the countenance of God.
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Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
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Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each time, till as it were the panting earth, worn out with the fierce passions of her fiery youth, has sobbed herself to sleep once more, and this new world of man is made.
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