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• Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

  Charles Kingsley

  Truth, Sake, Virtue

  Reviewing J. A. Froude's History of England, in 'Macmillan's Magazine' January 1864

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• Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?

  Charles Kingsley

  Fighting, Dust, Giving

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.204, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.

  Charles Kingsley

  Men, Holy, Goodness

  Charles Kingsley (1874). “David: Five Sermons”, p.12

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• The righteousness which is by faith in Christ is a loving heart and a loving life, which every man will long to lead who believes really in Jesus Christ.

  Charles Kingsley

  Jesus, Believe, Heart

  Charles Kingsley (1859). “The Good News of God: Sermons”, p.42

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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.

  Charles Kingsley

  Country, Lonely, Light

  Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.456, Cambridge University Press

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• My friends, let us try to follow the Saviour's steps; let us remember all day long what it is to be men; that it is to have every one whom we meet for our brother in the sight of God; that it is this, never to meet anyone, however bad he may be, for whom we cannot say: "Christ died for that man, and Christ cares for him still. He is precious in God's eyes, and he shall be precious in mine also".

  Charles Kingsley

  Brother, Eye, Men

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• A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.

  Charles Kingsley

  Men, Drawing, Gentleman

  Charles Kingsley (2016). “The Water Babies”, p.82, Charles Kingsley

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• Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?

  Charles Kingsley

  Soul, Youth, Mercy

  Charles Kingsley (1858). “Andromeda: And Other Poems”, p.22

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• So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

  Charles Kingsley

  Dream, Men, Earth

  Charles Kingsley (1848). “Politics for the People”, p.30

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• In the light of fuller day,
  Of purer science, holier laws.

  Charles Kingsley

  Science, Light, Law

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Andromeda and Other Poems: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.166, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is a great deal of human nature in man.

  Charles Kingsley

  Nature, Men, Deals

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Good News of God: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.231, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.

  Charles Kingsley

  Self, Long, Miracle

  Charles Kingsley, Frederick Denison Maurice (1848). “The Saint's Tragedy; Or the True Story of Elizabeth of Hungary, Landgravine of Thuringia: Saint of the Romish Calendar. With a Preface by Professor Maurice”, p.126

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• A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.

  Charles Kingsley

  Flower, Garden, Rainbow

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• For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

  Charles Kingsley

  Science, Rewards, Virtue

  "Health and Education, Science", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, pp. 691-92, 1922.

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• If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.

  Charles Kingsley

  Party, Politics, Hearted

  Charles Kingsley, Maurice Kingsley (1903). “The Novels, Poems, and Memories of Charles Kingsley: Letters and memories”

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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.

  Charles Kingsley

  Comfort, May, Littles

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Good News of God: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.473, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A fine lady; by which term I wish to express the result of that perfect education in taste and manner, down to every gesture, which heaven forbid that I, professing to be a poet, should undervalue. It is beautiful, and therefore I welcome it in the name of the author of all beauty. I value it so highly that I would fain see it extend not merely from Belgravia to the tradesman's villa, but thence, as I believe it one day will, to the laborer's hovel and the needlewoman's garret.

  Charles Kingsley

  Beautiful, Believe, Names

  Charles Kingsley (1862). “Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiograhpy”, p.117

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• Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.

  Charles Kingsley

  Mind, Savages, Way

  "The Water of Life and Other Sermons". Book by Charles Kingsley, "The Meteor Shower", November 26, 1866.

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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.

  Charles Kingsley

  Noble, Firsts, Germs

  'Health and Education' (1874) p. 20

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• You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

  Charles Kingsley

  Best Friend, Character, Cute Friendship

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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.

  Charles Kingsley

  Eye, Two, Curves

  Charles Kingsley (1859). “Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other Papers”, p.405

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• We shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand-the habit of mind which theologians call, and rightly, faith in God.

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  Faith, Wise, Mind

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Scientific Lectures and Essays”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• These glorious things-words-are man's right alone...Without words we should know no more of each other's hearts and thoughts than the dog knows of his fellow dog....for, if you will consider, you always think to yourself in words, though you do not speak them aloud; and without them all our thoughts would be mere blind longings, feelings which we could not understand ourselves.

  Charles Kingsley

  Dog, Heart, Men

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• What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.

  Charles Kingsley

  Want

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• I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences.

  Charles Kingsley

  God, Believe, Special

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.41, ReadHowYouWant.com

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