Charles Kingsley was an English novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east Hampshire.
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“Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day”
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.”
“He did not know that a keeper is only a poacher turned outside in, and a poacher a keeper turned inside out.”
“For men must work and women must weep./ And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.”
“O Mary, go and call the cattle home / And call the cattle home, / And call the cattle home,/ Across the sands of Dee.”
“Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.”
“Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message 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, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.”
“More ways of killing a cat than choking her with cream.”
“Have thy tools ready, God will find thee work”