Theodore Parker - Truth Quotes

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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.

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

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Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

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Man naturally loves justice, for its own sake, as the natural object of his conscience. As the mind loves truth and beauty, so conscience loves the right; it is true and beautiful to the moral faculties. Conscience rests in justice as an end, as the mind in truth. As truth is the side of God turned towards the intellect, so is justice the side of Him which conscience looks upon. Love of justice is the moral part of piety.

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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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Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.

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