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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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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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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.
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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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Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.
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That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.
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The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
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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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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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Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.
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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 most useful is the greatest.
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Greatness is its own torment.
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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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Disappointment is often the salt of life.
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All men desire to be immortal.
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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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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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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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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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