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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
Science
Urgency
Politician
Politics

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The miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New, the miracles of famous men, Jews, Gentiles, or Christians, — then Franklin had no religion at all and it would be an insult to say that he believed in the popular theology of his time, or of ours, for I find not a line from his pen indicating any such belief.
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Religion without joy-it is no religion.
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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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Greatness is its own torment.
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The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world.
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That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.
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Science is the natural ally of religion.
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Disappointment is often the salt of life.
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Nature is God's Old Testament.
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Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
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Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor
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There is no college for the conscience.
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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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The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.
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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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I look through the grave into heaven.
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Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.
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There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men.
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What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.
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