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Charles Kingsley (June 12, 1819 - January 23, 1875) was an English university professor, historian, and novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east Hampshire

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.

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Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.

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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

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Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us 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, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

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

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

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It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.

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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.

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There is a great deal of human nature in man.

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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 happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

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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.

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We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things -- the teacher of all truth.

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

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