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
true-love love-is sentimental
Love is sentimental measles.
best-friend imagine very-good
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
above darkness easter heaven last maker winter
See the land, her Easter keeping,Rises as her Maker rose.Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping,Burst at last from winter snows.Earth with heaven above rejoices...
men weather grey
Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.
inside keeper outside turned
He did not know that a keeper is only a poacher turned outside in, and a poacher a keeper turned inside out.
doll prettiest sweet
I once had a sweet little doll, dears, / The prettiest doll in the world.
men sooner women work
For men must work and women must weep./ And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.
arouse comfort dead except hearts human living man message miles open sheets souls speak teach terrify thousands wonderful
Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.
dogs dull lame meet though work
Do the work that's nearest, / Though it's dull at whiles, / Helping, when we meet them,/ Lame dogs over stiles.
across call cattle home sands
O Mary, go and call the cattle home / And call the cattle home, / And call the cattle home,/ Across the sands of Dee.
ashamed divine germ noble
To be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ of the first upgrowth of all virtue.
expression appreciate style
If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world would understand, though they might not appreciate. The perfectly popular style is the perfectly scientific one. To me an obscurity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.
love friendship trust
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.
smell feelings chemicals
Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.