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What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.
Charles Kingsley
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Charles Kingsley
Age: 55 †
Born: 1819
Born: June 12
Died: 1875
Died: January 23
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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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Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.
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Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.
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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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[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm.
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A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.
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Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
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Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
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All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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