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Theodore Parker on Character

1810–1860 United States

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Every man has at times in his mind the Ideal of what he should be, but is not.

Observation and reflection only give us the actual of morals; conscience, by gradual and successive intuition, presents us the ideal of morals.

Ten Sermons of Religion (1853)

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