Do noble things, not dream ...

Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.
Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.
 Charles Kingsley

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It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, can never know what true friendship means.
 Charles Kingsley
What is the commonest, and yet the least remembered form of heroism? The heroism of an average mother. Ah! when I think of that broad fact I gather hope again for poor humanity, and this dark world looks bright, this diseased world looks wholesome to me once more, because, whatever else it is or is not full of, it is at least full of mothers.
 Charles Kingsley
Make it a rule and pray to God to help you keep it . . . never, if possible, to lie down at night without being able to say "I have made one human being at least a little wiser, a little happier, or a little better this day.
 Charles Kingsley
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
 Charles Kingsley
If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, what people think of you; and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoil everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose.
 Charles Kingsley