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

— Theodore Parker A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion (1842)

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The world has grown rich and refined, but chiefly by the efforts of those who themselves continue poor and ignorant.

I love justice, not for its consequences for bodily gain, but for itself, for the moral truth and loveliness thereof.

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Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God.

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion (1842)

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

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