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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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Massachusetts
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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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Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.
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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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Great success is a great temptation.
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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buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.
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Nature is God's Old Testament.
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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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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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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
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I look through the grave into heaven.
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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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Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
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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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Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.
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Disappointment is often the salt of life.
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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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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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Religion without joy-it is no religion.
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