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Charles Henry Parkhurst
(17 Apr 1842 - 8 Sep 1933)
American clergyman and reformer whose interest in municipal politics and corruption culminated in preaching sermons against police graft that protected vice in New York City. Public support was aroused by newspaper coverage, and there was a sweeping investigation of the corrupt Tammany Hall Democratic political organization.
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Science Quotes by Charles Henry Parkhurst (5)
All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
'Sermons. III. Coming to the Truth'. In Anna L. Ward, A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose from American and Foreign Authors (1889), 585, No. 1190
Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 232:7.
Science has not solved difficulties, only shifted the points of difficulty.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 382:32 .
Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 382:35.
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The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
'Sermons. XII. The Pharisee's Prayer'. In Anna L. Ward, A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose from American and Foreign Authors (1889), 585, No. 5937
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