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Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

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Charles Henry Parkhurst
Age: 91 †
Born: 1842
Born: April 17
Died: 1933
Died: September 8
Autobiographer
Framingham
Massachusetts
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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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Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.
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Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end.
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Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.
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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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Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.
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There is always the possibility of beauty where there is an unsealed human eye of music where there is an unstopped human ear and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit.
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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.
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Purpose directs energy, and purpose makes energy.
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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.
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Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.
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The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.
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