Charles Kingsley Quote Explained: For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.

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Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?

Professor

· England

Dust
Fight

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For science is … like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

- Charles Kingsley

Professor

· England

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

- Charles Kingsley

Professor

· England

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Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.

- Charles Kingsley

Professor

· England

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I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.

- Charles Kingsley

Professor

· England

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

- Charles Kingsley

Professor

· England

Book
Reading

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

- Charles Kingsley

Professor

· England

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There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

- Charles Kingsley

Professor

· England

Cat
Killing

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it’s over, the sooner to sleep.

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it’s over, the sooner to sleep.

Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?

For science is … like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

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

Still the race of hero spirits pass the lamp from hand to hand.

I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.

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

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

There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die. Explain

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. Explain

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity. Explain

My eyes feel all soft, all soft as flesh. I’m going to sleep. Explain

Could a dream kill a man? Could it strangle him where he sat sleeping?

I sleep better at night knowing that scientists can clone sheep.

You can’t all of a sudden go to sleep one night and wake up Martha Stewart. It’s bit by bit by bit.

I never sleep on the plane. I have to be awake and using my mind power to keep it in the air

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it’s over, the sooner to sleep.

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it’s over, the sooner to sleep.

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