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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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Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.
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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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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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What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.
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That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.
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All men desire to be immortal.
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The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.
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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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