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
dream men earth
So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.
men goodness holy
Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.
eye two curves
Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two inches long, is just as magnificent, just as symbolic of divine mysteries and melodies, as when embodied in the span of some cathedral roof.
grief first-love men
Depend upon it, a man never experiences such pleasure or grief after fourteen years as he does before, unless in some cases, in his first lovemaking, when the sensation is new to him
may littles comfort
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.
men
Men must work, and women must weep.
lions said
It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.
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.
men drawing gentleman
A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
men weather grey
Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.
thanksgiving self excellence
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.
work christian-inspirational tools
Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
friendship true-friend mean
It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
kindness reality generosity
There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.