Parable Originally

Famous quotes containing the words parable and/or originally:

“Well done, thou good and faithful servant.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 25:21.

Here and in 25:23, said to the two “profitable servants” in the parable of the talents.

“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)