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
smell feelings chemicals
Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.
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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.
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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
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Life is too short for mean anxieties.
pain reality evil
Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.
dream long noble
Do noble things, not dream them all day long.
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Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature.
faith want want-me
I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.
freedom men two
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
happiness running reality
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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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.
act chief comfort happy luxury though
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about
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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.
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It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.