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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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It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.
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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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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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The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
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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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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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I look through the grave into heaven.
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Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
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Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.
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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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You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.
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All men desire to be immortal.
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Remorse is the pain of sin.
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Pride is both a virtue and a vice.
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The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.
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