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Science is the natural ally of religion.

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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Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.
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Pride is both a virtue and a vice.
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Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.
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The miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New, the miracles of famous men, Jews, Gentiles, or Christians, — then Franklin had no religion at all and it would be an insult to say that he believed in the popular theology of his time, or of ours, for I find not a line from his pen indicating any such belief.
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The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable
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Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season it.
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Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.
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All men desire to be immortal.
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Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
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Wit has its place in debate in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.
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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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It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.
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The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.
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I look through the grave into heaven.
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All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.
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Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.
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The most useful is the greatest.
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No man is so great as mankind.
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