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• There is no college for the conscience.

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  College, Conscience

  Theodore Parker (1863). “The Sermons of Religion”, p.53

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• That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.

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  Vanity, Giving, Liberality

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• The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.

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  Satisfaction, Life Is, Passports

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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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  Christian, Jesus, Men

  Theodore Parker (1842). “A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion”, p.363

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• Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.

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  Gains, Duty

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• Great success is a great temptation.

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  Temptation, Great Success

  Theodore Parker (1864). “Miscellaneous Discourses”, p.130

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• To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule of faith a practice, the Word, is very nigh him, even in his heart, and by this word he is to try all documents.

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  Heart, Men, Practice

  Theodore Parker (1842). “A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion”, p.216

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• Intellect is stronger than cannon.

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  Stronger, Cannons, Intellect

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• Politics is the science of urgencies.

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  Politics, Politician, Urgency

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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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  Design, Fields, Labor

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• Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian, Unitarian, Nothingarian. It is not to keep Sunday idle; to attend meetings; to be wet with water; to read the Bible; to offer prayers in words; to take bread and wine in the meeting house; love a scape-goat Jesus, or any other theological clap-trap.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Believe

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• Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand.

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  Flower, Hands, Years

  Theodore Parker (1871). “The Collected Works of ... P. ...”

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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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  Summer, Sweet, Winter

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.153

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• Love is the piety of the affections.

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  Love, Love Is, Affection

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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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  Business, Taken, Men

  Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.85

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• The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages bigotry, hypocrisy, cant, and many another vice which the older Mother of Abominations kept clear from.

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  Christian, Mother, Hypocrisy

  "Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker: Minister of the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society, Boston, Vol. 1". Book by John Weiss, p. 374, 1864.

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• The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.

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  Christian, Heart, Compassion

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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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  Nature, Heart, Men

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• Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.

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  Marriage, Made, Materials

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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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  Shining, Soul, Crowns

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• Humanity is the sin of God

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  Humanity, Sin

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• The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties.

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  Character, Joy, Heaven

  Theodore Parker (1866). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of theology”, p.35

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• [America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

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  Mother, Betrayal, Blood

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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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  Nature, Nice, Butterfly

  Theodore Parker “Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]”

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• Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

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  Dark, Civilization, Cities

  Theodore Parker “The Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”

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