Charles Kingsley was an English novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east Hampshire.
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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.”
Charles Kingsley
“There is a great deal of human nature in man.”
“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.”
“Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.”
“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.”
“I once had a sweet little doll, dears, / The prettiest doll in the world.”
“He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them”
“A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London”
“Do the work that's nearest, / Though it's dull at whiles, / Helping, when we meet them,/ Lame dogs over stiles.”
“All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me.”