Charles Henry Parkhurst Quotes - Page 2

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• Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Ideals

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• Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Agents, Benefits, Indifference

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• Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Mean, Doe, Genius

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• Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Science, Busy, Ends

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• The old echoes are long in dying.

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  Echoes, Long, Dying

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• The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Science, Safety, Facts

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• Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Three, Purpose, Salvation

  Charles Henry Parkhurst (1897). “Talks to Young Men”

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• Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Metaphor, Insight, Supreme

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• Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Men, Giants, Kind

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• And let me say only this one word more: that the little things that a little Christian does are not any more than the larger things that an older Christian does.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Christian, Doe, Littles

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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.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Faith, Passion, Soul

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• Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Science, Difficulty, Accounts

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• Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Delicacy, Spirit, Sin

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• My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Black, Together, Sun

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• All true manliness grows around a core of divineness.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  True Man, Grows, Core

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• So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Law, Joy, Genius

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• It is all a mistake that we cannot be good and manly without being scrupulously and studiously good. There is too much mechanism about our virtue.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Mistake, Too Much, Virtue

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• A man's longest purposes will be his best purposes. It is true, life is short and uncertain; but it is better to live on the short arc of a large circle than to describe the whole circumference of a small circle.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Life Is Short, Men, Circles

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• We are religious by nature.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Religious, Religion

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