WednesdayMar 11, 2026
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Charles Kingsley (June 12, 1819 - January 23, 1875) was an English novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east Hampshire.
As thorough an Englishman as ever coveted his neighbor's goods.
Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.
I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.
As the rays come from the sun, and yet are not the sun, even so our love and pity, though they are not God, But merely a poor, weak image and reflection of him, yet from him alone they come.
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.
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 hour hearts, and in turn open their hearts to us like brothers. Without books God is silent, justice dormant, philosophy lame.
There are two freedoms the false where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.
We shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understandthe habit of mind which theologians call, and rightly, faith in God.
Do it this very moment! Dont put it offdont wait! Theres no use in doing a kindness If you do it a day too late.
I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science will be looked upon as a defect only second to ignorance of the primary laws of religion and morality.
All that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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.
If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.
Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.
O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!
Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.
Mrs. Bedonebyasyoudid is coming. The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby.
Men must work, and women must weep.
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content, and a hundred other virtues which the idle never know.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
One good man, one man who does not put on his religion once a week with his Sunday coat, but wears it for his working dress, and lets the thought of God grow into him, and through and through him, till everything he says and does becomes religious, that man is worth a thousand sermons he is a living Gospel he comes in the spirit and power of Elias he is the image of God. And men see his good works, and admire them in spite of themselves, and see that they are Godlike, and that God's grace is no dream, but that the Holy Spirit is still among men, and that all nobleness and manliness is His gift, His stamp, His picture: and so they get a glimpse of God again in His saints and heroes, and glorify their Father who is in heaven.
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.
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