dots-menu
×

Home  »  Dictionary of Quotations  »  C. Kingsley

James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

C. Kingsley

But men must work, and women must weep, / Though storms be sudden and waters deep, / And the harbour bar be moaning.

Do the duty that lies nearest to you. Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

Duty—the command of Heaven, the eldest voice of God.

Each man can learn something from his neighbour: at least he can learn to have patience with him—to live and let live.

Feelings are like chemicals; the more you analyse them, the worse they smell.

Jealousy is often the helpmate of sweet love.

No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.

The world goes up, and the world goes down, / And the sunshine follows the rain; / And yesterday’s sneer, and yesterday’s frown, / Can never come over again.