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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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Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
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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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Every man has at times in his mind the Ideal of what he should be, but is not. This ideal may be high and complete, or it may be quite low and insufficient yet in all men, that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character... 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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Nature is God's Old Testament.
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All men desire to be immortal.
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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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I look through the grave into heaven.
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Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
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Disappointment is often the salt of life.
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Greatness is its own torment.
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The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.
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Science is the natural ally of religion.
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There is no college for the conscience.
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A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.
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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
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Pride is both a virtue and a vice.
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It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
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All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.
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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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