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When I consider what some books have done for the world, and what they are doing, how they keep up our hope, awaken new courage and faith, soothe pain, give an ideal life those whose hours are cold and hard, bind together distant ages and foreign lands, create new worlds of beauty, bring down truth from heaven; I give eternal blessings for this gift, and thank God for books.
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Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a great man by a discriminating criticism. Hero-worship, which paints a faultless monster, whom the world never saw, is like those modern pictures which are a blaze of light without any shadow.
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Born:
April 4, 1810
Died:
June 8, 1888
(aged 78)
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James Freeman Clarke was an American theologian and author.
Known for:
Ten Great Religions (1871)
Autobiography, diary, and correspondence
Memorial and biographical sketches (1878)
Every-day religion (1886)
Self-Culture (1880)
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