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There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we never saw who lived perhaps thousands of miles away, and yet these little sheets of paper speak to us, arouse us, teach us, open our hearts and in turn open their hearts to us like brothers. Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, philosophy lame.Charles Kingsley
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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.Charles Kingsley
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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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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.Charles Kingsley
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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
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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.Charles Kingsley
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Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.Charles Kingsley
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Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from... human souls we never saw... And yet these arouse us terrify us teach us comfort us open their hearts to us as brothers.Charles Kingsley
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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.Charles Kingsley
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Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever.Charles Kingsley
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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.Charles Kingsley
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All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.Charles Kingsley
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.Charles Kingsley
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Do noble things do not dream them all day long.Charles Kingsley
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Be good sweet maid and let who can be clever.Charles Kingsley
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Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever Do noble things not dream them all day long And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.Charles Kingsley
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There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.Charles Kingsley
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Thank God ever morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.Charles Kingsley
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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them.Charles Kingsley
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And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.Charles Kingsley
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Do today's duty fight today's temptation do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see and could not understand if you saw them.Charles Kingsley
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The world is God's world after all.Charles Kingsley
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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.Charles Kingsley
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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.Charles Kingsley
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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.Charles Kingsley
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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
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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.Charles Kingsley
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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.Charles Kingsley