Charles Kingsley Quotes

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

Friendship, Great, True

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

Trust, Best, Blessed

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

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
Charles Kingsley

Beauty, God, Beautiful

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

Work, Best, Strength

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.
Charles Kingsley

Rain, Sunshine, Down

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

Romantic, Age, Past

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

Freedom, True, Two

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
Charles Kingsley

Work, God, Find

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.
Charles Kingsley

Pain, Evil, Unless

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

Feelings, Worse, Smell

Do noble things, not dream them all day long.
Charles Kingsley

Long, Dream, Noble

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

Nothing, Book, Living

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

Men, Power, Almost

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

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.
Charles Kingsley

May, Learn, Gentleman

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.
Charles Kingsley

Good, Sweet, Clever

There is a great deal of human nature in man.
Charles Kingsley

Nature, Great, Human

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.
Charles Kingsley

Special, Used, While

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.
Charles Kingsley

Young, Dog, Blood

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Clergyman

Born: June 12, 1819

Died: January 23, 1875

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