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There is no college for the conscience.

Theodore Parker

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Theodore Parker
Age: 49 †
Born: 1810
Born: August 24
Died: 1860
Died: May 10
Theologian
Lexington
Massachusetts
Conscience
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All men desire to be immortal.
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Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor
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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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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
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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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That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.
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The most useful is the greatest.
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What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.
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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 great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
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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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Disappointment is often the salt of life.
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I look through the grave into heaven.
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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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Nature is God's Old Testament.
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