Theodore Parker Quotes (29 Quotes)


    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.


    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, and

    Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

    The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.


    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.


    Let us do our duty in our shop or our 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, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.

    Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

    I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality I am conscious of eternal life.


    Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.


    Democracy means not I am as good as you are but You are as good as I am

    Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

    Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right. 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 curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. Things refuse to be mismanaged long.

    Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.


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

    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.

    It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.

    Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other it has often been so.

    You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.

    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.


    We are 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.


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



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