Charles Kingsley Quotes

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

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. - Charles Kingsley

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. - Charles Kingsley

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. - Charles Kingsley

To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ of the first upgrowth of all virtue. - Charles Kingsley

Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down. - Charles Kingsley

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late. - Charles Kingsley

There is a great deal of human nature in man. - Charles Kingsley

There are two freedoms; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is free to do what he ought. - Charles Kingsley

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