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Quotes by Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley

The world goes up and the world goes down And the sunshine follows the rain And yesterdays sneer and yesterdays frown Can never come over again.

Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever.

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.

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

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.

Do noble things do not dream them all day long.

Be good sweet maid and let who can be clever.

Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever Do noble things not dream them all day long And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.

Theres no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

Thank God ever morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not.

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

And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.

Do todays duty fight todays temptation do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see and could not understand if you saw them.

The world is Gods world after all.

The world goes up and the world goes down And the sunshine follows the rain And yesterdays sneer and yesterdays frown Can never come over again Sweet wife. No never come over again.

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.

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

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.

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

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.