Charles Kingsley
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"Charles Kingsley" was a priest of the Church of England, a university professor, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated with the West Country and northeast Hampshire. He was a friend and correspondent with Charles Darwin.

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Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

Linux gave [these companies] a greater sense of choice. We saw some limited concern over Linux fracturing, but it was a minor issue at best.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long.

I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing.

There are two freedoms; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is free to do what he ought.

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

Security is always a big concern for many customers and ISVs. The question really boils down to one of trust.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are some songwriters who can like me I have a problem writing chorus lyrics but I can write a song in a story like that.

You know when I really realized like "wow" what a gift this is was when I sang at camp and a girl wrote me a letter and said the song that I sung kept her from committing suicide.

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

By taking a consistently negative attitude toward the competition, a vendor becomes increasingly insular. That's not good for business.

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.

The second stage benefits we found were a simple expansion of those benefits; that Linux provided a simple variation of IT efforts, enhanced IT staff performance and helped to retain existing IT staff.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

These are markets that are widely separated by geography, and despite that, all three adopted Linux for the same reasons -- to lower costs and increase overall IT efficiency.

I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.

I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church.

The advantage of an open-source database is the ability to customize it to your specific needs. Having said that, very few customers who decide to use an open-source database actually avail themselves of the opportunity to customize code.

As scalability, performance, and advanced administration requirements are realized, you will need to look to a 'major database provider' to satisfy the business needs.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.