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Charles Kingsley quotes

English Clergyman June 12, 1819 – January 23, 1875

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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. Charles Kingsley
"The men whom I have seen succeed best in life have always been cheerful and hopeful men, who went about their business with a smile on their faces, and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men, facing rough and smooth alike as it came. Charles Kingsley
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley quote: "It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean..."
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley quote: "Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can..."
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way. Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley quote: "All we need to make us really happy is something to be..."
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Charles Kingsley
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
Charles Kingsley quote: "Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for..."
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. Charles Kingsley
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. 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
Charles Kingsley quote: "There is a great deal of human nature in man."
There is a great deal of human nature in man. 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
Charles Kingsley quote: "Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work."
Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work. Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley quote: "Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever."
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. Charles Kingsley
Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist. Charles Kingsley

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