Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsleywas a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives that failed but led to the working reforms of the progressive era. He was a friend and correspondent with Charles Darwin...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth12 June 1819
procrastination waiting return
Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.
kindness reality generosity
There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.
dog heart men
These glorious things-words-are man's right alone...Without words we should know no more of each other's hearts and thoughts than the dog knows of his fellow dog....for, if you will consider, you always think to yourself in words, though you do not speak them aloud; and without them all our thoughts would be mere blind longings, feelings which we could not understand ourselves.
friendship best-friend glasses
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
cat way killing
There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream.
beautiful honor world
Did it ever strike you that goodness is not merely a beautiful thing, but by far the most beautiful thing in the whole world? So that nothing is to be compared for value with goodness; that riches, honor, power, pleasure, learning, the whole world and all in it, are not worth having in comparison with being good; and the utterly best thing for a person is to be good, even though they were never to be rewarded for it.
men giving feelings
This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.
heaven lasts earth
Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.
butterfly past
All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me.
england wealth rich
Oh England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high, But England is a cruel place for such poor folks as I
study countenance
Study nature as the countenance of God.
citizens and-love virtue
There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.
soul youth mercy
Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?
creating giving miracle
So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny and the railroad, Cunard's liners and the electric telegraph, are to me, if not to you, signs that we are, on some points at least, in harmony with the universe; that there is a mighty spirit working among us, who cannot be your anarchic and destroying Devil, and therefore may be the Ordering and Creating God.