Charles Henry Parkhurst
Charles Henry Parkhurst
Charles Henry Parkhurstwas an American clergyman and social reformer, born in Framingham, Massachusetts. Although scholarly and reserved, he preached two sermons in 1892 in which he attacked the political corruption of New York City government. Backed by the evidence he collected, his statements led to both the exposure of Tammany Hall and to subsequent social and political reforms...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
CountryUnited States of America
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Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.
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Faith is mind at its best, its bravest, and its fiercest. Faith is thought become poetry, and absorbing into itself the soul's great, passions. Faith is intellect carried up to its transfigurement.
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Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.
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Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.
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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
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Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.
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Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
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Purpose is what gives life meaning.
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The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
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The old echoes are long in dying.
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Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.
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Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.
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Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end.
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The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.