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The world is God's world after all.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is f...

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Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from... human souls...

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, dil...

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There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from huma...

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to ma...

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Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry i...

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Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever.

Do today's duty fight today's temptation do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to...

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

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The world goes up and the world goes down And the sunshine follows the rain And yesterday's sneer ...

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

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Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an ...

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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether yo...

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Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever Do noble things not dream them all day long And s...

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And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.

Do noble things do not dream them all day long.

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly th...

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Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterl...

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The world goes up and the world goes down And the sunshine follows the rain And yesterday's sneer ...

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There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human sou...

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Be good sweet maid and let who can be clever.

Thank God ever morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you...

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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them.

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Charles Kingsley

Professor

Born: 1819-06-12

Died: 1875-01-23

Charles Kingsley (June 12 1819 – January 23 1875) was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives that failed but led to the working reforms of the progressive era.More