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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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Men

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What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.
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The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.
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Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
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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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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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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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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
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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 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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The most useful is the greatest.
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Great success is a great temptation.
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Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.
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Politics is the science of urgencies.
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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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Remorse is the pain of sin.
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