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Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 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. He was a friend and correspondent with Charles Darwin.

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You are literally filled with the fruit of your own devices, with rats and mice and such small deer, paramecia, and entomostraceæ, and kicking things with horrid names, which you see in microscopes at the Polytechnic, and rush home and call for brandy-without the water-stone, and gravel, and dyspepsia, and fragments of your own muscular tissue tinged with your own bile.

Home, Literally, Names, Rush, Science, Things

You must not say that this cannot be, or that that is contrary to nature. You do not know what Nature is, or what she can do; and nobody knows; not even Sir Roderick Murchison, or Professor Huxley, or Mr. Darwin, or Professor Faraday, or Mr. Grove, or any other of the great men whom good boys are taught to respect. They are very wise men; and you must listen respectfully to all they say: but even if they should say, which I am sure they never would, 'That cannot exist. That is contrary to nature,' you must wait a little, and see; for perhaps even they may be wrong.

Men, Roderick, Say, Science, Wise

Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, he asks of thee works first and words after.

Canst, Disobeying, Hymns, Long, Singing, Words

All but God is changing day by day.

Changing, Day, God

Have charity; have patience; have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, or weak--above all, any little child--to shame and confusion of face. Never by petulance, by suspicion, by ridicule, even by selfish and silly haste--never, above all, by indulging in the devilish pleasure of a sneer--crush what is finest and rouse up what is coarsest in the heart of any fellow-creature.

Children, Coarsest, Confusion, Crush, Selfish, Suspicion

I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do.

Effort, Ifs, Nothing, World

Nothing is so infectious as example.

Example, Infectious, Nothing

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

Clergy, Sake, Truth, Virtue

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Deal, Deals, Human, Man, Men, Nature

Science frees us in many ways. . . from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.

Feels, Mind, Minds, Overwhelming, Savages, Way

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.

Change, Follows, Frown, Nature, Travel, World

There is something very wonderful about music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words do; it speaks through our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls. Music soothes us, stirs us up, it puts noble feelings in us, it can make us cringe; and it can melt us to tears; and yet we have no idea how. It is a language by itself, just as perfect in its ways as speech, as words, just as divine, just as blessed.

Blessed, Heart, Music, Root, Soothes, Ways

If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.

Like, Pay, People, Respect, Thinking, Want

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Ands, Hands, Humorous, Ifs, Ifs And, Work

Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.

English, Grey, Men, Weather

. . . the heroism of the average mother. Ah! When I think of that broad fact, I gather hope again for poor humanity; and this dark world looks bright. . . because, whatever else it is not full of, it is at least full of mothers.

Bright, Dark, Fact, Mother, Thinking, World

Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a person is to be good, even though they were never to be rewarded for it.

Beautiful, Honor, Person, Strike, World, Worth

Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His mercy is over all His works.

Comfort, Know, Littles, May, Recollect

Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.

Good, Goodness, Holy, Invents, Men, Righteous

Beauty is God's handwriting. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair day, every fair flower.

Beauty, Christian, Fair, Flower, Handwriting, Welcome

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