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Theodore Parker
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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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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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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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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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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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That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.
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There never was a great truth but it was reverenced never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.
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Remorse is the pain of sin.
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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 great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
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What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.
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Religion without joy-it is no religion.
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Greatness is its own torment.
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Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
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There is no college for the conscience.
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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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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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The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.
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