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Charles Kingsley

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Not every great thinker makes it into the history books, but Charles Kingsley's words speak for themselves. With equal ease, Charles Kingsley moved between Work and Best, finding connections others missed. Our collection holds 16 quotes from Charles Kingsley, each offering a different angle on Work, Best, Trust, Strength, and Romantic. A line that stays with you: "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.”

— Charles Kingsley

Freedom

All Quotes by Charles Kingsley

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

— Charles Kingsley

Friendship

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

— Charles Kingsley

Men

“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.”

— Charles Kingsley

Best

“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 never know.”

— Charles Kingsley

Best

“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.”

— Charles Kingsley

Age

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.”

— Charles Kingsley

Beauty

“Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.”

— Charles Kingsley

Work

“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.”

— Charles Kingsley

Freedom

“There is a great deal of human nature in man.”

— Charles Kingsley

Nature