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Nature is God's Old Testament.

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Theodore Parker
Age: 49 †
Born: 1810
Born: August 24
Died: 1860
Died: May 10
Theologian
Lexington
Massachusetts
Testament
Nature

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The most useful is the greatest.
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Pride is both a virtue and a vice.
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A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.
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That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.
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It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.
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Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.
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Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
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What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.
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Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.
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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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Religion without joy-it is no religion.
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The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.
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Politics is the science of urgencies.
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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.
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Great success is a great temptation.
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Greatness is its own torment.
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Remorse is the pain of sin.
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There is no college for the conscience.
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Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
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