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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
Politics
Science
Urgency
Politician

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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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Science is the natural ally of religion.
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Religion without joy-it is no religion.
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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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Nature is God's Old Testament.
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There is no college for the conscience.
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The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
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Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
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That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.
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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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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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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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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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It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.
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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
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The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
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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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