Charles Kingsley Quotes

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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.

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.

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Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever
One grand, sweet song.

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When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad,
And every lass a queen;
Then hey for boot and horse, lad,
And round the world away;
Young blood must have its course, lad,
And every dog his day.

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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.

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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.

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For science is, I verily believe, like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

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Thus geology is (or ought to be), in popular parlance, the people's science - the science by studying which, the man ignorant of Latin, Greek, mathematics, scientific chemistry, can yet become - as far as his brain enables him - a truly scientific man.

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Science has made vast strides, and introduced entirely new modes of looking at nature, and poets must live up to the age.

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Always try to explain the unknown by the known. If you meet something which you have not seen before, then think of the thing most like it, which you have seen before; and try if that which you know explains the one will not explain the other also.

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Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

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There is no lie in Nature; no discords in the revelations of science, in the laws of the Universe.

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

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Science was the child of Courage, and Courage the child of Knowledge.

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Come; and strong within us
Stir the Vikings' blood;
Bracing brain and sinew;
Blow, thou wind of God!

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I have seen the cultivated man, craving for travel and for success in life, pent up in the drudgery of London work, and yet keeping his spirit calm, and perhaps his morals all the more righteous, by spending over his microscope

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They say, man is the microcosm... but the man of science finds every worm and beetle a microcosm in its way. It exemplifies, directly or indirectly, every physical law in the universe, though it may not be two lines long. It is not only a part, but a mirror, of the great whole.

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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.

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

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And I am very ugly. I am the ugliest fairy in the world; and I shall be, till people behave themselves as they ought to do. And then I shall grow as handsome as my sister, who is the loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby. So she begins where I end, and I begin where she ends; and those who will not listen to her must listen to me, as you will see.

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

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All the ingenious men and all the scientific men in the world could never invent anything so curious and so ridiculous as a lobster.

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

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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.

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Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a person is to be good, even though they were never to be rewarded for it.

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