Charles Kingsley citations

Charles Kingsley était un écrivain britannique, associé au West Country.

✵ 12. juin 1819 – 23. janvier 1875  •  Autres noms چارلز کینقزلی
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Charles Kingsley: Citations en anglais

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

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

Source: 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.”

Charles Kingsley

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.”

Charles Kingsley

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

Charles Kingsley

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?”

Charles Kingsley

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.”

Charles Kingsley

Song I, st. 1. <br class="br"> 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.”

Charles Kingsley

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.”

Charles Kingsley

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.”

Charles Kingsley

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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“The world goes up and the world goes down,
And the sunshine follows the rain;
And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown
Can never come over again.”

Charles Kingsley

Dolcino to Margaret, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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