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Charles Kingsley Quotes

Best Quotes by Charles Kingsley (Top 10)

  1. The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

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