About 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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You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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First it was passion, then it became duty, and finally an intolerable burden.