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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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What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.
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Nature is God's Old Testament.
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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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Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.
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Greatness is its own torment.
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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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Great success is a great temptation.
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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 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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No man is so great as mankind.
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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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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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Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
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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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