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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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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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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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Religion without joy-it is no religion.
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Disappointment is often the salt of life.
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Wit has its place in debate in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.
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The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.
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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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There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men.
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Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
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All men desire to be immortal.
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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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Politics is the science of urgencies.
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The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
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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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That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.
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