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

— Charles Kingsley

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I don't even think about fame at all. ↗

— Leighton Meester

#even #fame #i #think

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 #breed #cheerfulness #content #diligence

Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

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Do noble things, not dream them all day long. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

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

— Charles Kingsley

#almost #every #except #gift #possess

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

#except #living #man #more #nothing

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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