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Changeless march the stars above, Changeless morn succeeds to even; And the everlasting hills, Changeless watch the changeless heaven. (Charles Kingsley)
Let us be content to do little, if God sets us at little tasks. It is but pride and self-will which says, "Give me something huge to fight, - and I should enjoy that - but why make me sweep the dust?" View quote
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They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam, To her grave beside the sea: But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home Across the sands of Dee. View quote
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Ah, my friends, we must look out and around to see what God is like. It is when we persist in turning our eyes inward, and prying curiously over our own imperfections, that we learn to make God after our own image, and fancy that our own darkness and hardness of heart are the patterns of His light and love. View quote
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This is eternal life; a life of everlasting love, showing itself in everlasting good works; and whosoever lives that life, he lives the life of God, and hath eternal life. View quote
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Oh that we two were Maying. View quote
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Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever One grand, sweet song. View quote
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And I am very ugly. I am the ugliest fairy in the world; and I shall be, till people behave themselves as they ought to do. And then I shall grow as handsome as my sister, who is the loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs. Doasyouwouldbedoneby. So she begins where I end, and I begin where she ends; and those who will not listen to her must listen to me, as you will see. View quote
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Clear and cool, clear and cool, By laughing shallow, and dreaming pool. View quote
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Fools! who fancy Christ mistaken; Man a tool to buy and sell; Earth a failure, God-forsaken, Ante-room of Hell. View quote
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Sad, sad to think that the year is all but done. (Charles Kingsley)
And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep- And good-by to the bar and its moaning. View quote
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Don't holla till you are out of the wood. This is a night for praying rather than boasting. View quote
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I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw [in Ireland] . . . I don't believe they are our fault. . . . But to see white chimpanzees is dreadful; if they were black, one would not feel it so much. . . ." View quote
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Would that we two were lying Beneath the churchyard sod, With our limbs at rest in the green earth's breast, And our souls at home with God. View quote
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If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you you will be as wretched as you choose. View quote
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Nothing is so infectious as example. View quote
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Music has been called the speech of the angels I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself. View quote
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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. View quote
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I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science will be looked upon as a defect only second to ignorance of the primary laws of religion and morality. View quote
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Study nature as the countenance of God. (Charles Kingsley)
For men must work and women must weep. And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep. View quote
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Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy. View quote
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Those clouds are angels' robes. View quote
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Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you. View quote
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