Charles Kingsley Short Quotes

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These rocks, at least, tell me no lies, as men do.

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

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Universal laws manifest themselves only by particular instances.

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

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Eustace is a man no longer; he is become a thing, a tool, a Jesuit.

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

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

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

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

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

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Clear and cool, clear and cool,
By laughing shallow, and dreaming pool.

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

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

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

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Three fishers went sailing away to the west,
Away to the west as the sun went down.

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Wise men know that their business is to examine what is, and not to settle what is not.

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

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And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep—
And good-by to the bar and its moaning.

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Welcome, wild North-easter!
Shame it is to see
Odes to every zephyr;
Ne'er a verse to thee.

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

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

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

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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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Night's son was driving His golden-haired horses up; Over the eastern firths High flashed their manes.

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

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Geology... the science which explains to us the rind of the earth; of what it is made; how it has been made.

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And such a port for mariners I ne'er shall see again
As the pleasant isle of Aves, beside the Spanish Main.

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

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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?

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