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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Theodore Parker (1860). (search)
esk is Truth! That your brave teacher dared to speak, and no more. It is only two or three times in our lives that we pause in telling the whole merit of a friend, from fear of being thought flatterers. What the world thinks easily done, it believes; all beyond is put down to fiction. I find myself hesitating ,to speak just all I think of Theodore Parker, lest those --who did not know him should suppose I flatter, and thus 31 mar the massive simplicity of his fame. Born on the 24th of August, 1810, he died just before finishing his fiftieth year. He said to me, years ago, When I am fifty, I will leave the pulpit, and finish the great works I have planned. God ordered it so! He has left this desk, and gone there to finish the great works that he planned! Some speak of his death as early; but he died in good old age, if we judge him by his work,--full of labors, if not of years, a long life crowded into a few years; as Bacon says, Old in hours, for he lost no time. Truly, h