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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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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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Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.
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The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
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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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What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.
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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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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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No man is so great as 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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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buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.
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There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men.
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Greatness is its own torment.
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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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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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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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The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.
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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 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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Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor
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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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