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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
Science

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Religion without joy-it is no religion.
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Wit has its place in debate in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.
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What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.
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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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Nature is God's Old Testament.
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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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The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.
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Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.
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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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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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Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.
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The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.
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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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I look through the grave into heaven.
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The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
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The most useful is the greatest.
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Greatness is its own torment.
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Remorse is the pain of sin.
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What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.
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