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| All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. | Charles H. Parkhurst | 1842-1933, American Clergyman, Reformer |
| The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts. | Charles H. Parkhurst | 1842-1933, American Clergyman, Reformer |
| The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of. | Charles H. Perkhurst | |
| A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| It has been said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| None are more unjust in their judgements of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| It is not well to make great changes in old age. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
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| Of two evils, choose neither. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| Giving is true having. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he keeps a very small stock of it within. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| Luck generally comes to those who look for it, and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
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| We are all at times unconscious prophets. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| The wishing gate opens into nothing. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
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| Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt. | Charles Horace Mayo | 1865-1939, American Surgeon |
| We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself to a larger conception of what constitutes the self. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
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| To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to ''Americanize'' him. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| Each man must have his ''I''; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| Institutions -- government, churches, industries, and the like -- have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgements of the other mind. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
| We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot. | Charles Horton Cooley | 1864-1929, American Sociologist |
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