Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memoirs of His Life, Volum 1

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King, 1877 - 502 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 314 - The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination ; a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
Pàgina 276 - O Lord, in thee have I trusted : let me never be confounded.
Pàgina 278 - Wheresoever thou findest Disorder, there is thy eternal enemy; attack him swiftly, subdue him; make Order of him, the subject not of Chaos, but of Intelligence, Divinity and Thee! The thistle that grows in thy path, dig it out, that a blade of useful grass, a drop of nourishing milk, may grow there instead. The waste...
Pàgina 238 - Aid it, hopes of honest men, Aid it, paper ; aid it, type ; Aid it, for the hour is ripe, And our earnest must not slacken into play. Men of thought and men of action, clear the way!
Pàgina 406 - The Sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper, o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.
Pàgina 477 - Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly of heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Pàgina 360 - I saw also, that there was an ocean of darkness and death ; but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness. In that also I saw the infinite love of God, and I had great openIngs.
Pàgina 472 - She mastered young Vindictive— Oh ! the gallant lass was she, And kept him straight and won the race as near as near could be ; But he killed her at the brook against a pollard willow tree, Oh ! he killed her at the brook, the brute, for all the world to see.
Pàgina 308 - I believe there are not only many more of them than of old, but that they are happier, better, more comfortably fed and lodged under our rule than they ever were. But to see white chimpanzees is dreadful ; if they were black, one would not feel it so much, but their skins, except where tanned by exposure, are as white as ours.

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