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• He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

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  Prayer, Heart, Men

  Theodore Parker (1863). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of slavery”, p.179

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• Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

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  Silence, Speech, Cold

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.50

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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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  Heart, Asylums, Faces

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.71

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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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  Dark, Men, Civilization

  Theodore Parker “The Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”

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• Pride is both a virtue and a vice.

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  Pride, Vices, Virtue

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• Greatness is its own torment.

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  Greatness, Torment

  Theodore Parker (1855). “Ten Sermons of Religion”, p.89

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• The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life.

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  Kings, War, Grief

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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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  Angel, Men, Atheism

  Theodore Parker (1842). “A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion”, p.217

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• The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.

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  Age, Nests, Belief

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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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  Stars, Men, Telescopes

  Theodore Parker “Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]”

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• Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.

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  Truth, Home, Doors

  Theodore Parker (1863). “The Sermons of Religion”, p.22

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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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  Science, Greek, Truth Is

  Theodore Parker (1863). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of politics”, p.78

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• It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

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  Loss, Evil, Vain

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.50

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• The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.

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  Home, Honest, Labor

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.79

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• What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

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  Success, Succeed, Habit

  Theodore Parker (1871). “The Collected Works of ... P. ...”

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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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  Summer, Book, Joy

  Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.168

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• The most useful is the greatest.

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  Greatness

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• I am conscious of eternal life.

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  Immortality, Conscious, Eternal Life

  Theodore Parker (1850). “A Sermon of Immortal Life: Preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, September 20th, 1846”, p.26

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• I look through the grave into heaven.

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  Heaven, Looks, Immortality

  Theodore Parker (1866). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of theology”, p.33

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• Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

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  Mother, Ideas, Ugly

  Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.142

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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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  Loss, Men, Intellectual

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.221

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• Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

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  Truth, Ease, Sides

  Theodore Parker (1842). “A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion”, p.309

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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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  Beauty, Kings, Cat

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• The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

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  Mean, Loss, Men

  Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.84

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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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  Fashion, Coats, Arms

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.31

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