Quotes by Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley

British writer

Lived from: 1819 - 1875

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 12 june 1819 Died: 23 january 1875

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

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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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  • Each man can learn something from his neighbour, at least he can learn this, to have patience with his neighbour, to live and let live.
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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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  • 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.
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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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  • 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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  • 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 have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.
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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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What are the most famous quotes from Charles Kingsley?

The two most famous quotes from Charles Kingsley are:

  • "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."
  • "Each man can learn something from his neighbour, at least he can learn this, to have patience with his neighbour, to live and let live."

When did Charles Kingsley live?

Charles Kingsley was born in 1819 and died in the year 1875.