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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.

  Charles Kingsley

  Truth, Heart, Wicked

  Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge, where salmon wait for Autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west.

  Charles Kingsley

  Book, Autumn, Bridges

  Charles Kingsley (1871). “Westward Ho! Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Bourrough, in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty, Queen Elizabeth”, p.1

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• Stick to the old truths and the old paths, and learn their di- vineness by sick-beds and in every-day work, and do not darken your mind with intellectual puzzles, which may breed disbelief, but can never breed vital religion or practical usefulness.

  Charles Kingsley

  Truth, Sick, Mind

  Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

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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!

  Charles Kingsley

  Home, Sand, Mary

  'The Sands of Dee'

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• If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world would understand, though they might not appreciate. The perfectly popular style is the perfectly scientific one. To me an obscurity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.

  Charles Kingsley

  Expression, Appreciate, Style

  Charles Kingsley (1877). “Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.56

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• After all, there is such a thing as looking like a gentleman. There are men whose class no dirt or rags can hide, any more than they could Ulysses. I have seen such men in plenty among workmen, too; but, on the whole, the gentleman--by whom I do not mean just now the rich--have the superiority in that point. But not, please God, forever. Give us the same air, water, exercise, education, good society, and you will see whether this "haggardness," this "coarseness" (etc., for the list is too long to specify), be an accident, or a property, of the man of the people.

  Charles Kingsley

  Mean, Exercise, Men

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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.

  Charles Kingsley

  Men, Soul, Favors

  Charles Kingsley (1889). “Works”

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• In the four hundred and thirteenth year of the Christian era, some three hundred miles above Alexandria, the young monk Philammon was sitting on the edge of a low range of inland cliffs, crested with drifting sand.

  Charles Kingsley

  Christian, Book, Years

  Charles Kingsley (1856). “Hypatia ... The second edition”, p.1

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• There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

  Charles Kingsley

  Cat, Way, Killing

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• Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God.

  Charles Kingsley

  Voice, Heaven, Duty

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.93, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high,
  But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I

  Charles Kingsley

  England, Wealth, Rich

  Charles Kingsley (1872). “Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, Etc”, p.230

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• If thou art fighting against thy sins, so is God. On thy side is God who made all, and Christ who died for all and the Spirit who alone gives wisdom, purity, and nobleness.

  Charles Kingsley

  Art, Fighting, Giving

  Charles Kingsley (1859). “The Good News of God: Sermons”, p.275

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• The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.

  Charles Kingsley

  Angel, Names, Bed

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• You must not say that this cannot be, or that that is contrary to nature. You do not know what Nature is, or what she can do; and nobody knows; not even Sir Roderick Murchison, or Professor Huxley, or Mr. Darwin, or Professor Faraday, or Mr. Grove, or any other of the great men whom good boys are taught to respect. They are very wise men; and you must listen respectfully to all they say: but even if they should say, which I am sure they never would, 'That cannot exist. That is contrary to nature,' you must wait a little, and see; for perhaps even they may be wrong.

  Charles Kingsley

  Wise, Science, Boys

  Charles Kingsley (2015). “The Water-Babies”, p.38, Booklassic

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• It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe. And it is true that you may see simple laboring men as thorough gentlemen as any duke, simply because they have learned to fear God; and, fearing him, to restrain themselves, which is the very root and essence of all good breeding.

  Charles Kingsley

  Simple, Men, Europe

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Gospel of the Pentateuch: A Set of Parish Sermons: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.59, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.

  Charles Kingsley

  Simple, Plagiarism, Thinker

  Charles Kingsley (1859). “Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time: With Other Papers”, p.366

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• The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.

  Charles Kingsley

  Dog, Lame, Dull

  'Letter to Thomas Hughes'

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• Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town.

  Charles Kingsley

  Children, Sailing, Towns

  'The Three Fishers'

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• I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.

  Charles Kingsley

  Equality, Justice, Ants

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Scientific Lectures and Essays: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.218, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?

  Charles Kingsley

  School, Average, Long

  1863 The Water Babies, ch.8.

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

  Charles Kingsley

  Roots, Law, Vaunt

  Charles Kingsley (1872). “Poems: Including The Saint's Tragedy, Andromeda, Songs, Ballads, Etc”, p.53

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• You are literally filled with the fruit of your own devices, with rats and mice and such small deer, paramecia, and entomostraceæ, and kicking things with horrid names, which you see in microscopes at the Polytechnic, and rush home and call for brandy-without the water-stone, and gravel, and dyspepsia, and fragments of your own muscular tissue tinged with your own bile.

  Charles Kingsley

  Home, Science, Names

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• He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.

  Charles Kingsley

  Discovery, Water, Mind

  Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke (fict. name.) (1862). “Alton Locke”, p.21

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• Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back sixteen years, to the days when Whitbury boasted of forty coaches per diem, instead of one railway, and set forth how in its southern suburb, there stood two pleasant house side by side, with their gardens sloping down to the Whit, and parted from each other only by the high brick fruit-wall, through which there used to be a door of communication; for the two occupiers were fast friends.

  Charles Kingsley

  Wall, Book, Communication

  Charles Kingsley (1860). “Two years ago ... Third edition”, p.18

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• Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.

  Charles Kingsley

  Hero, Race, Hands

  Charles Kingsley (1858). “Andromeda: And Other Poems”, p.122

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