Charles Kingsley Quotes
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We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.
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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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Tell us not that the world is governed by universal law; the news is not comfortable, but simply horrible, unless you can tell us, or allow others to tell us, that there is a loving giver, and a just administrator of that law.
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Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.
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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.
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Clear and cool, clear and cool,By laughing shallow, and dreaming pool.
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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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Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
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Changeless march the stars above,Changeless morn succeeds to even;And the everlasting hills,Changeless watch the changeless heaven.
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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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There is a great deal of human nature in man.
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When all the world is old, lad,And all the trees are brown;And all the sport is stale, lad,And all the wheels run down; Creep home, and take your place there, The spent and maimed among:-God grant you find one face there,You loved when all was young.
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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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Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
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If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand - nature; and do what a little child could do - love.
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The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
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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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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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Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
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O Mary, go and call the cattle home,And call the cattle home,And call the cattle homeAcross the sands of Dee;The western wind was wild and dank with foam,And all alone went she.
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They rowed her in across the rolling foam,The cruel crawling foam,The cruel hungry foam,To her grave beside the sea:But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle homeAcross the sands of Dee.
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Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.
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All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.