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No man is so great as mankind.

Theodore Parker

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Theodore Parker
Age: 49 †
Born: 1810
Born: August 24
Died: 1860
Died: May 10
Theologian
Lexington
Massachusetts
Mankind
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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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Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.
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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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Wit has its place in debate in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.
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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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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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Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
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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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The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
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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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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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Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.
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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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