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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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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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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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Science is the natural ally of religion.
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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 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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Pride is both a virtue and a vice.
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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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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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Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.
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Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
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What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.
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Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.
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Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.
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