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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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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.
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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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There is no college for the conscience.
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Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.
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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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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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The most useful is the greatest.
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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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Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.
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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
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Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
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Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season it.
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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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Science is the natural ally of religion.
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It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.
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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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Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.
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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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