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Charles Kingsley Quotes about Children

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If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

Charles Kingsley
Children, Simplicity, Wish
Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

Have charity; have patience; have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, or weak--above all, any little child--to shame and confusion of face. Never by petulance, by suspicion, by ridicule, even by selfish and silly haste--never, above all, by indulging in the devilish pleasure of a sneer--crush what is finest and rouse up what is coarsest in the heart of any fellow-creature.

Charles Kingsley
Crush, Children, Selfish
Charles Kingsley (2008). “Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.253, ReadHowYouWant.com

You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.

Charles Kingsley
Nature, Children, Ocean
Charles Kingsley (1864). “The Water-babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-baby”, p.66

Never trample on any soul though it may be lying in the veriest mire; for that last spark of self-respect is its only hope, its only chance; the last seed of a new and better life: the voice of God that whispers to it: "You are not what you ought to be, and you are not what you can be. You are still God's child, still an immortal soul. You may rise yet. and fight a good fight yet, and be a man once more, after the likeness of God who made you, and Christ who died for you!

Charles Kingsley
Children, Lying, Fighting
Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Good News of God: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.302, ReadHowYouWant.com

I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science will be looked upon as a defect only second to ignorance of the primary laws of religion and morality.

Charles Kingsley
Children, Ignorance, Law
Charles Kingsley (1873). “Town Geology”, p.15

Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze; Like children with violets playing, In the shade of the whispering trees.

Charles Kingsley
Children, Spring, Two
Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Saint's Tragedy: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.111, ReadHowYouWant.com

Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town.

Charles Kingsley
Children, Sailing, Towns
'The Three Fishers'

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