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Charles Kingsley Quotes

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.



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.



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.

Friendship Quotes


It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Friendship Quotes


He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.