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Charles Kingsley [1819-1875] English
Rank: 104
Poet (with poems), University Professor

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Charles Kingsley was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist.

Age, Best, Freedom, Friendship, Great, Men, Romantic, Strength, Trust, Work



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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. Age, Romantic
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All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
102
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. Friendship, Great
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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. Best, Strength, Work
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Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
105
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults. Trust
106
Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.
107
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.
108
Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.
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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. Freedom
110
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.
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We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.
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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. Men
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Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
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There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.
115
There is a great deal of human nature in man.
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Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
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Do noble things, not dream them all day long.
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Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
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