This date in 1819 saw the birth of Charles Kingsley, clergyman and author whose books include Westward
Ho! and The Water Babies.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.
- Do noble things, not dream them all day long.
- 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.
- Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
- Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
- Never, if possible, lie down at night without being able to say: I have made one human being at least a little wiser, or a little happier, or at least a little better this day.
- Do as you would be done by.
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