Charles Kingsley Quotes

• Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

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

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• 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.

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• We have used the Bible as if it was a constable’s handbook—an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are being overloaded.

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

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• 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… Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby.

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• The healthiest situation in England, on Easthampstead Plain. Free run of Windsor Forest. The Times every morning. A double-barrelled gun and pointers, and leave to shoot three Wellington College boys a week (not more) in case black game was scarce.

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• The great elm-trees in the gold-green meadows were fast asleep above, and the cows fast asleep beneath them; nay, the few clouds which were about were fast asleep likewise, and so tired that they had lain down on the earth to rest, in long white flakes and bars, among the stems of the elm-trees, and along the tops of the alders by the stream.

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• Once upon a time there was a little chimney-sweep, and his name was Tom.

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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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• ‘Oh Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands of Dee.’ The western wind was wild and dank with foam, And all alone went she.

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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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• The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rain; And yesterday’s sneer and yesterday’s frown Can never come over again, Sweet wife. No, never come over again.

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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.

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• 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

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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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• 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.

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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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• 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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Charles Kingsley (31)

Birth:	12th June, 1819
Death:	23rd January, 1875
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Historian, Novelist, Priest, Professor

About

Charles Kingsley was born in Holne, Devon, England. He was a priest of the Church of England, professor, historian and novelist. He educated at Bristol Grammar School and Helston Grammar School before studying at King's College London, and the University of Cambridge. He entered Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1838, and graduated in 1842. In 1859 he was appointed chaplain to Queen Victoria. In 1860, he was appointed Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. In 1861 he became a private tutor to the Prince of Wales. Kingsley's interest in history is shown in several of his writings, including The Heroes, a children's book about Greek mythology, and several historical novels, of which the best known are Hypatia, Hereward the Wake and Westward Ho!.

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