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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 earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.
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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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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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Pride is both a virtue and a vice.
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The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
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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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Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.
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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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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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Greatness is its own torment.
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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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The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.
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What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.
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There is no college for the conscience.
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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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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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Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.
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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 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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