Frasi di Charles Kingsley
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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

“For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.”

Health and Education http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17437/17437-h/17437-h.htm, The Science of Health (1874).

“I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences."”

Origine: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 279.

“Would that we two were lying
Beneath the churchyard sod,
With our limbs at rest in the green earth's breast,
And our souls at home with God.”

The Saint's Tragedy (1848), Act ii, scene ix, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Attributed

“Toil is the true knight's pastime.”

The Saint's Tragedy (1848), Act i, scene ii, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Attributed

“Let us ask ourselves seriously and honestly, " What do I believe after all? What manner of man am I after all? What sort of show would I make after all, if the people around me knew my heart and all my secret thoughts?"”

What sort of show then do I already make in the sight of Almighty God, who sees every man exactly as he is?

P. 276.
Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

“I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw [in Ireland] . . . I don't believe they are our fault. . . . But to see white chimpanzees is dreadful; if they were black, one would not feel it so much. . . .”

In a letter written from Markree Castle, Sligo to his wife dated July 4th 1860. Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memoirs https://archive.org/details/charleskingsleyh00kingiala/page/308 (1877)

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