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Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.

Charles Kingsley

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Charles Kingsley
Age: 55 †
Born: 1819
Born: June 12
Died: 1875
Died: January 23
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Whatever may be the mysteries of life and death, there is one mystery which the cross of Christ reveals to us, and that is the infinite and absolute goodness of God. Let all the rest remain a mystery so long as the mystery of the cross of Christ gives us faith for all the rest.
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If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature and do what a little child could do — love.
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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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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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Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.
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Nature's deepest laws, her only true laws, are her invisible ones.
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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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For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
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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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The loveliest fairy in the world and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.
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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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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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So fleet the works of men, back to their earth againAncient and holy things fade like a dream.
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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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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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How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?
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All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me.
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Pray over every truth for though the renewed heart is not desperately wicked, it is quite deceitful enough to become so, if God be forgotten a moment.
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The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.
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Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.
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