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From Quotes by Theodore Parker
- 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…
- The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great thinker is a…
- I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am…
- If belief in the miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New is required to make a man religious, then Franklin had no religion…
- 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…
- Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
- All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which is a symbol…
- 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…
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