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Theodore Parker

Theodore Parker (August 24, 1810 – May 10, 1860) was an American Transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist, his words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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

Brother, Injustice, Naked, Poor, Soul

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 ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Book, Books, Make, Make You Think, Thinking, Thought

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

Mother, Ideas, Ugly, Wrong, Mothers, Fact

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

Democracy, Direct, Government, People, Self

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

Heaven, Men, See, Stars

Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.

God, Jewels, Man, Material, Men, World

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.

Book, Joy, Master, Summer, Sweetness, Writ

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

Body, Fool, Poor, Soul

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.

Greatness, Institution, Institutions, Men, Receive, Reverenced

Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.

Home, Let, Life, Serving, Strength, Success

Greatness is its own torment.

Greatness, Torment

To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule of faith a practice, the Word, is very nigh him, even in his heart, and by this word he is to try all documents.

Heart, Men, Practice, Rule, Word

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.

Hands, Heart, Men, Prayer, Prays

Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.

Angelic, Appreciation, Countenance, Gratitude, Inspirational

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

Civilization, Dark, Fireplaces, Heat, Light, Radiated

Science is the natural ally of religion.

Allies, Ally, Natural, Religion, Science And Religion

I believe in the admission of women to the full rights of citizenship and share in government, on the express grounds that few women keep house so badly or with such wastefulness as chancellors of the exchequer keep the state.

Admission, Badly, Believe, Government, Rights

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

Greatness, Men, Nothing, Rare, Repays, World

I am conscious of eternal life.

Conscious, Eternal, Eternal Life, Immortality, Life

A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.

Falling, Falling In Love, Long, Love, Marriage, Wedlock

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