Facts about Charles Kingsley
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Charles Kingsley (born in Holne, Devon, England, died in Eversley, Hampshire, England) was a famous Clergyman from England, who lived between June 12, 1819 and January 23, 1875.
Biography
Charles Kingsley was a British writer. In 1848 he made his debut with the novel Yeast, a problem.
Kingsley was in 1842, a priest and later Dean of Chester and Westminster, and in 1860 became professor of modern history at Cambridge University. He represented the broad church of the Anglican Church. Uncle to the anthropologist Mary Kingsley.
Charles Kingsley was part of a group of Oxonians (in Oxford) who shared his interest in German philosophy and science. The friends of the circuit - Friedrich Max Muller, James Anthony Froude, Matthew Arnold and CJ Christian von Bunsen - vurmade for the "Aryan", "Teutonic" and "Anglo-Saxon" heritage.
It is said, even today among the Irish that the English hate racists and the Irish. "I feel persecuted by the human chimpanzees I saw along the way by this terrible country", witch is written by Kingsley after a trip to Ireland. "I do not think it's our fault. I think that not only are there more of them than in the old days, but also that they are happier, better, eat and live comfortably in our government than ever before. But to see white chimpanzees is terrible, if they were black you would not feel it so much, but their skin when it has been burned by the sun, is as white as ours. " The Irish were Europe's natives. They scared the Kingsley because their skin color did not match with his racial prejudices. Zodiac etc.
He is born under the zodiac gemini, who is known for Communication, Indecision, Inquisitive, Intelligent, Changeable.
Our collection contains 21 quotes who is written / told by Charles, under the main topic Men.
Related authors: James Anthony Froude, Matthew Arnold, Max Muller
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Famous quotes by Charles Kingsley (21)
"Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day"
"All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about"
"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"
"There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late"
"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"
"It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means"
"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"
"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"
"He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them"
"Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever"
"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"
"Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book"
"Do noble things, not dream them all day long"
"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"
"Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell"
"There is a great deal of human nature in man"
"Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us"
"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"
"Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth"
"Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work"
"He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them"
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