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All men desire to be immortal.

Theodore Parker

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Theodore Parker
Age: 49 †
Born: 1810
Born: August 24
Died: 1860
Died: May 10
Theologian
Lexington
Massachusetts
Immortal
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Men

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Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
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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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Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor
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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.
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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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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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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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Great success is a great temptation.
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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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What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.
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I look through the grave into heaven.
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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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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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Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
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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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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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There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men.
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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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