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Mark Hopkins (September 1, 1813 - March 29, 1878) was an individual whose profession and category are not well-documented. His life story and contributions remain unclear due to limited information available.

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Famous Mark Hopkins Quotes

“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.”

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Book:A Discourse Commemorative of Amos Lawrence: Delivered by Request of the Students, in the Chapel of Williams College, February 21, 1853

Source: A Discourse Commemorative of Amos Lawrence: Delivered by Request of the Students, in the Chapel of Williams College, February 21, 1853

“Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth, purity, kindness. It humbles the proud, exalts the lowly, upholds law, favors liberty, is essential to it, and would unite men in one great brotherhood. It is the breath of life to social and civil well-being here, and spreads the azure of that heaven into whose unfathomed depths the eye if faith loves to look.”

“The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.”

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Book:Receiving and Giving: A Baccalaureate Sermon, Delivered at Williamstown , Ms. August 15, 1852. Published by Request of the Class

Source: Receiving and Giving: A Baccalaureate Sermon, Delivered at Williamstown , Ms. August 15, 1852. Published by Request of the Class