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Politics is the science of urgencies.

Theodore Parker

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Theodore Parker
Age: 49 †
Born: 1810
Born: August 24
Died: 1860
Died: May 10
Theologian
Lexington
Massachusetts
Urgency
Politician
Politics
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Remorse is the pain of sin.
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Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.
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Wit has its place in debate in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.
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Great success is a great temptation.
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The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable
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It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.
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There is no college for the conscience.
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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.
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The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.
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Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.
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Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
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I look through the grave into heaven.
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Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season it.
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Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.
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Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
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Pride is both a virtue and a vice.
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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.
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It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.
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