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Professor, Pfarrer, Schriftsteller, "Hypatia" (England, 1819 - 1875).

Charles Kingsley · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Charles Kingsley wäre heute 204 Jahre, 10 Monate, 18 Tage oder 74.833 Tage alt.

Geboren am 12.06.1819 in Holne
Gestorben am 23.01.1875 in Eversley (Hampshire)
Sternzeichen: ♊ Zwillinge

• I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science will be looked upon as a defect only second to ignorance of the primary laws of religion and morality.

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• In books people speak to us - living and dead - and open their hearts to us as brothers and sisters.

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• Life is too short for mean anxieties.

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• Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.

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• Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not.

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• The western tide crept up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand, And round and round the sand, As far as eye could see. The rolling mist came down and hid the land: And never home came she.

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• There are two freedoms, the false where one is free to do what he likes, and the true where he is free to do what he ought.

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• Three fishers went sailing away to the west, Away to the west as the sun went down; Each thought on the woman who loved him the best, And the children stood watching them out of the town.

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• 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.

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• Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

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• We have used the Bible as if it was a constable's handbook - an opium-dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are being overloaded.

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• We shall be made truly wise if we made content; content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understand - the habit of mind which theologians call, and rightly, faith in God.

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• What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.

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• When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away: Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day.

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• Dans les livres il y a des hommes morts et vivants qui nous parlent et nous ouvrent leurs cœurs en frères et sœurs.

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