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
angel clouds robes
Those clouds are angels' robes.
science light law
In the light of fuller day, Of purer science, holier laws.
science rewards virtue
For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
dream song sweet
Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.
queens science years
[The] great fairy Science, who is likely to be queen of all the fairies for many a year to come, can only do you good, and never do you harm...
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Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
sarcastic men common-sense
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
flower garden rainbow
A garden, sir, wherein all rainbows and flowers were heaped together.
bible biblical special
We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.
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[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric telegraphs, and rifled guns, and so forth; and knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things that no one will know till the coming of the Cocqcigrues.
book autumn bridges
All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge, where salmon wait for Autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west.
god believe feet
Because I believe in a God of absolute and unbounded love, therefore I believe in a loving anger of His which will and must devour and destroy all which is decayed, monstrous, abortive in His universe till all enemies shall be put under His feet, and God shall be all in all.
love angel wells
Love can make us fiends as well as angels.
life wine fighting
I have fought my fight, I have lived my life, I have drunk my share of wine; From Trier to Coln there was never a knight Led a merrier life than mine.