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"17 Charles Kingsley Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 12 June 1819. Died: 23 January 1875 | Priest | Social reformer | Historian | Novelist | Poet |

What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.

Want Possess Religion Me
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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.

Act Comfort Luxury Life
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Feelings are like chemicals; the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

Feelings Analyze Worse Smell
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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.

Freedoms False Man Free
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Do noble things, do not dream them all day long.
Do Noble things Dream Day
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What’s the use of doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

Use Doing Kindness Day
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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.

Do Today Duty Temptation
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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.

Thank God Something Do
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The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

Men Succeed Life Cheerful
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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.
Great True Friends Mean
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Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

Except Living man Wonderful Book
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Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

Pain Evil Conuers Us
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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.

Friendship Broken Rarely Same way
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...People's souls make their bodies, just as a snail makes its shell.

People's Souls Bodies Makes
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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.

Wonderful Strongest World Know
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Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.

Cheerfulness Significance Good health Clear conscience
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Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

Duty Wait Returns Fresh
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Charles Kingsley Quotes & Sayings