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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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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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No man is so great as mankind.
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What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.
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Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
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Nature is God's Old Testament.
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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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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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Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.
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The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.
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Greatness is its own torment.
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Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
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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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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.
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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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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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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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The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
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There never was a great truth but it was reverenced never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.
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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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