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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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Wit has its place in debate in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.
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Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
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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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Every man has at times in his mind the Ideal of what he should be, but is not. This ideal may be high and complete, or it may be quite low and insufficient yet in all men, that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character... Man never falls so low, that he can see nothing higher than himself.
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Politics is the science of urgencies.
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Nature is God's Old Testament.
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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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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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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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Disappointment is often the salt of life.
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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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I look through the grave into heaven.
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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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The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
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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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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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It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.
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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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No man is so great as mankind.
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