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The most useful is the greatest.

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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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Nature is God's Old Testament.
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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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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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No man is so great as mankind.
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Politics is the science of urgencies.
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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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Wit has its place in debate in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.
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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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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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All men desire to be immortal.
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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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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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That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.
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Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.
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Greatness is its own torment.
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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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Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
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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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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
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