Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
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Charles Kingsley
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About Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley was an English clergyman, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. A broad church priest of the Church of England, he is particularly associated with Christian socialism, Anti-Catholicism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives, which failed, but encouraged later working reforms. He is known for his novels Yeast (1848), Alton Locke (1850), Hypatia (1853), Westward Ho! (1855), The Water-Babies (1863), and Hereward the Wake (1866).
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Charles KingsleyBeing 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 ne…
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.
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 ne…
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
There is a great deal of human nature in man.
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
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It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
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.
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 ne…
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.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.