Quote#Heart
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire…
Quote byTheodore Parker · 1810–1860
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: As quoted in Treasury of Thought : Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1894) edited by Martin M. Ballou, p. 231..
English (original)
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive nature away from the heart of man.
— Theodore Parker
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