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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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Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
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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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I look through the grave into heaven.
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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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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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Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.
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The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
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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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Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
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Religion without joy-it is no religion.
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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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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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There never was a great truth but it was reverenced never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.
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There is no college for the conscience.
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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
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Disappointment is often the salt 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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The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.
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