Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
More Quotes from Theodore Parker:
Let us do our duty in our shop or kitchen in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, andTheodore Parker
Politics is the science of urgencies.
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The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
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Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.
Theodore Parker
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.
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