“Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.”

— Mark Hopkins (educator)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 403.

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American educationalist and theologian 1802–1887

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