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Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.

Charles Kingsley

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Charles Kingsley
Age: 55 †
Born: 1819
Born: June 12
Died: 1875
Died: January 23
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Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.
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Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones.
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And how high is Christ's cross? As high as the highest heaven, and the throne of God, and the bosom of the Father that bosom out of which forever proceed all created things. Ay, as high as the highest heaven! for if you will receive it when Christ hung upon the cross, heaven came down on earth, and earth ascended into heaven.
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O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!
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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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