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
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
self long miracle
Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.
world
The world is God's world, after all.
effort world ifs
I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do.
music angel speech
Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.
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.
discovery water mind
He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.
faith wise mind
We shall be made truly wise if we be made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand-the habit of mind which theologians call, and rightly, faith in God.
home sand mary
O Mary, go and call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, And call the cattle home, Across the sands o' Dee!
science men thinking
Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those conceptions of form and number which every human being possesses; and any person of average intellect can make himself a fair mathematician if he will only pay continuous attention; in plain English, think enough about the subject.
children simplicity wish
If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.
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.
mind way savages
Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.