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Charles Kingsley Quotes: Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.
         

Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.


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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.

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.



If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands



Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.



All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.



I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.



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.

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.



Those clouds are angels' robes.

Those clouds are angels' robes.



The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.



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.

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.



Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.





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I have learnt that you're out of your mind now!- Consider it as my fault... No! I don't blame you! - So Is it easy for you to forgive me? Try to walk in my shoes someday ...

I have learnt that you're out of your mind now!- Consider it as my fault... No! I don't blame you! - So Is it easy for you to forgive me? Try to walk in my shoes someday ...



Tomorrow! How sweet its prospects for a drunkard the night before. There is no better word. Before the earth hurls itself into sunshine, nothing is not possible.

Tomorrow! How sweet its prospects for a drunkard the night before. There is no better word. Before the earth hurls itself into sunshine, nothing is not possible.



Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.



Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.



One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.

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Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.



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Rather than becoming the best, I want to become a singer with meaning.




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