Democracy means not I am as good as you are but You are as good as I am
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Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other it has often been so.Theodore Parker
Let us do our duty in our shop or 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
Theodore Parker
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
Theodore Parker
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
Theodore Parker
Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.
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It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
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