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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.
Theodore Parker
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Theodore Parker
Age: 49 †
Born: 1810
Born: August 24
Died: 1860
Died: May 10
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Lexington
Massachusetts
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The miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New, the miracles of famous men, Jews, Gentiles, or Christians, — then Franklin had no religion at all and it would be an insult to say that he believed in the popular theology of his time, or of ours, for I find not a line from his pen indicating any such belief.
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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 most useful is the greatest.
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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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Pride is both a virtue and a vice.
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Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
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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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Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.
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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 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buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.
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What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.
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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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