Frasi di Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley è stato uno scrittore, docente e sacerdote inglese anglicano, legato al socialismo cristiano di cui fu un fervente attivista. Era amico e corrispondente con Charles Darwin e, nel 1864, iniziò una serie di pamphlets contro la conversione dall'anglicanesimo al cattolicesimo di John Henry Newman. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. Giugno 1819 – 23. Gennaio 1875   •   Altri nomi چارلز کینقزلی
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Charles Kingsley: Frasi in inglese

“The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.”

Charles Kingsley libro The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby

Origine: The Water-Babies

“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.”

Notes of August 1842, published in Charles Kingsley : His Letters and Memories of His Life (1883) edited by Frances Eliza Grenfell Kingsley, p. 65.

“Pain is no evil,
Unless it conquer us.”

St. Maura, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“Oh that we two were Maying.”

The Saint's Tragedy (1848), Act ii, scene ix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“Are gods more ruthless than mortals?
Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?”

Andromeda, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“Clear and cool, clear and cool,
By laughing shallow, and dreaming pool.”

Song I, st. 1.
Water Babies http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/wtrbs10h.htm (1863)

“Fools! who fancy Christ mistaken;
Man a tool to buy and sell;
Earth a failure, God-forsaken,
Ante-room of Hell.”

The World's Age, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“Sad, sad to think that the year is all but done.”

The Starlings, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“In the light of fuller day,
Of purer science, holier laws.”

On the Death of a certain Journal, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Ring in the nobler modes of life / with sweeter manners, purer laws", Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam, cvi, Stanza 4.
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