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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. — Charles Kingsley

if you do not know, reader, what a Fisher Hobbs is, you know nothing about pigs, and deserve no bacon for breakfast. — Charles Kingsley

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. — Charles Kingsley

Life is too short for mean anxieties. — Charles Kingsley

Nothing is so infectious as example. — Charles Kingsley

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

Nature's deepest laws, her own true laws, are her invisible ones. — Charles Kingsley

The world is God's world, after all. — Charles Kingsley

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell. — Charles Kingsley

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day. — Charles Kingsley

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work. — Charles Kingsley

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep. — Charles Kingsley

There is a great deal of human nature in man. — Charles Kingsley

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

Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature. — Charles Kingsley

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me. — Charles Kingsley

Toil is the true knight's pastime. — Charles Kingsley

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

Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand. — Charles Kingsley

[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 ... — Charles Kingsley

There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream. — Charles Kingsley

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

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

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

Every duty that is bidden to wait comes back with seven fresh duties at its back. — Charles Kingsley

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

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

I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do. — Charles Kingsley

Men must work, and women must weep. — Charles Kingsley

Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise. — Charles Kingsley

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see. — Charles Kingsley

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

And what was the song which she sang? Ah, my little man, I am too old to sing that song, and you too young to understand it. — Charles Kingsley

Do noble things, not dream them all day long. — Charles Kingsley

Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment. — Charles Kingsley

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

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

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way. — Charles Kingsley

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. — Charles Kingsley

Love can make us fiends as well as angels. — Charles Kingsley

In the light of fuller day,
Of purer science, holier laws. — Charles Kingsley

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

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

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late. — Charles Kingsley

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

This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty. — Charles Kingsley

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. — Charles Kingsley

All but God is changing day by day. — Charles Kingsley

Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself. — Charles Kingsley

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again. — Charles Kingsley

Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men. — Charles Kingsley

And now I'm old and going
I'm sure I can't tell where;
One comfort is, this world's so hard, I can't be worse off there — Charles Kingsley

All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me. — Charles Kingsley

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

Study nature as the countenance of God. — Charles Kingsley

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward. — Charles Kingsley

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

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

It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him. — Charles Kingsley

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us. — Charles Kingsley

Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down. — Charles Kingsley

Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or a mine, there is fairyland. — Charles Kingsley

Oh, don't hurt me!" cried Tom. "I only want to look at you; you are so handsome. — Charles Kingsley

Beauty is God's handwriting. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair day, every fair flower. — Charles Kingsley

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back. — Charles Kingsley

Duty
the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God. — Charles Kingsley

A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together. — Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles. — Charles Kingsley

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

Those clouds are angels' robes. — Charles Kingsley