Theodore Parker Quotes
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“What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.”
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The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
— Theodore Parker
“Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.”
— Theodore Parker
— Theodore Parker
“Politics is the science of urgencies.”
— Theodore Parker
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
— Theodore Parker
— Theodore Parker
— Theodore Parker
“Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.”
— Theodore Parker
“Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.”
— Theodore Parker
Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.
— Theodore Parker
Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.
— Theodore Parker
What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.
— Theodore Parker
— Theodore Parker
— Theodore Parker
“It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.”
— Theodore Parker
Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.
— Theodore Parker
“That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.”
— Theodore Parker
— Theodore Parker
— Theodore Parker
The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life.
— Theodore Parker
“Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.”
— Theodore Parker
“Nature is God's Old Testament.”
— Theodore Parker
A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.
— Theodore Parker
“Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor”
— Theodore Parker
“The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.”
— Theodore Parker
— Theodore Parker
“Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.”
— Theodore Parker
The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.
— Theodore Parker
— Theodore Parker
“Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.”
— Theodore Parker
“Greatness is its own torment.”
— Theodore Parker
— Theodore Parker
Science is the natural ally of religion.
— Theodore Parker
Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.
— Theodore Parker
Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.
— Theodore Parker
— Theodore Parker
— Theodore Parker
“I look through the grave into heaven.”
— Theodore Parker
“The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.”
— Theodore Parker
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