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• It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.

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  Stars, Men, Heaven

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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, Government, People

  Sermon at Music Hall, Boston, Mass., 4 July 1858 See Lincoln 42; Theodore Parker 1; Daniel Webster 5

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• As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

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  Society, Poverty, Poor

  Theodore Parker (1864). “Critical Writings”, p.136

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• Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.

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  Divine Order, Body, Preservation

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.18

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• No man is so great as mankind.

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  Men, Mankind

  Theodore Parker (1853). “Theism, Atheism, and the Popular Theology: Sermons”, p.55

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• Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.

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  Weapons, Debate, Offensive

  Theodore Parker (1871). “Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons”, p.299

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• All men desire to be immortal.

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  Men, Desire, Immortal

  Theodore Parker (1850). “A Sermon of Immortal Life: Preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, September 20th, 1846”, p.10

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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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  Brother, Soul, Naked

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.55

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• In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

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  Greatness, Men, World

  Theodore Parker (1866). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of theology”, p.1

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• Nature is God's Old Testament.

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  Nature, Old Testament, Testament

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• Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.

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  Mother, Father, Lines

  Theodore Parker (1855). “Ten Sermons of Religion”, p.219

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• Remorse is the pain of sin.

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  Pain, Sin, Remorse

  Theodore Parker (1853). “Sermons of Theism, Atheism, and the Popular Theology”, p.404

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• Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

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  Sacrifice, Laughing, Desire

  "Checklist For Life For Moms" by Thomas Nelson Publishers, (p. 139), 2005.

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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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  War, Evil, Form

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• There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

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  Greatness, Men, Institutions

  Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.205

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• I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.

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  Life, Dust, Eternity

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

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• Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.

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  Men, Ideas, Justice

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.57

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• The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul.

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  Soul, Body, Fool

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• Humanity is the Son of God.

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  Son, Humanity

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• Science is the natural ally of religion.

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  Allies, Natural, Science And Religion

  Theodore Parker (1863). “The Sermons of Religion”, p.26

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• The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.

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  Greatness, Men, Race

  Theodore Parker (1863). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of politics”, p.135

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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.

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  Government, Law, Space

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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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  Religious, Strong, Business

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• Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.

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  Fall, Men, Lows

  Theodore Parker (1864). “Critical Writings”, p.1

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• The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.

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  Men, Hands, Body

  Theodore Parker (1859). “The critical and miscellaneous writings of Theodore Parker”, p.123

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