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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
College

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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.
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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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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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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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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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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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Religion without joy-it is no religion.
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Remorse is the pain of sin.
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I look through the grave into heaven.
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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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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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The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.
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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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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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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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Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
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The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.
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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
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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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