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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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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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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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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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The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.
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There is no college for the conscience.
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Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.
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Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.
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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 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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No man is so great as mankind.
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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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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.
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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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Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
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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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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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Science is the natural ally of religion.
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The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.
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