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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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Religion
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Science

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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 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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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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Remorse is the pain of sin.
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Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
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There is no college for the conscience.
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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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Greatness is its own torment.
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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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Disappointment is often the salt of life.
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Every man has at times in his mind the Ideal of what he should be, but is not. This ideal may be high and complete, or it may be quite low and insufficient yet in all men, that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character... Man never falls so low, that he can see nothing higher than himself.
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Politics is the science of urgencies.
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It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
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The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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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 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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The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
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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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