“Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His mercy is over all His works.”

—  Charles Kingsley

Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 276.

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English clergyman, historian and novelist 1819–1875

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