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
friendship best-friend glasses
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
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.
blessed fighting self
A blessed thing it is 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; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.
nature children ocean
You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.
wise wine old-friends
Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.
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.
change nature travel
The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
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.
life world wonderful
The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.
thinking people want
If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.