Theodore Parker Quotes

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• It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.
• Disappointment is often the salt of life.
• Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts in these marvelous…
• As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
• Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
• Remorse is the pain of sin.
• Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
• Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.
• I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.
• Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.
• Politics is the science of urgencies.
• The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great thinker is a…
• I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am…
• Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.
• Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor
• If belief in the miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New is required to make a man religious, then Franklin had no religion…
• 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…
• 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…
• Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.
• Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

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