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

Charles Henry Parkhurst

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinkings.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

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

Charles Henry Parkhurst

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

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Charles Henry Parkhurst

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Born: April 17, 1842

Died: September 8, 1933 (aged 91)

Bio: Charles Henry Parkhurst was 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.

Known for:

Our fight with Tammany (1895)
My Forty Years in New York (1923)
MUNICIPAL REFORM MOVEMENTS IN
One Hundred Great Texts and Their Treatment (1914)

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