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Theodore Parker
Age: 49 †
Born: 1810
Born: August 24
Died: 1860
Died: May 10
Theologian
Lexington
Massachusetts
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Politics is the science of urgencies.
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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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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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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 earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.
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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
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Remorse is the pain of sin.
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It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.
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Wit has its place in debate in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.
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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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The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
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Pride is both a virtue and a vice.
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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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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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Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.
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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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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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Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
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That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.
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