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Nature is God's Old Testament.
Theodore Parker
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Theodore Parker
Age: 49 †
Born: 1810
Born: August 24
Died: 1860
Died: May 10
Theologian
Lexington
Massachusetts
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Nature
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Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.
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What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.
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It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.
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